Alberta ACORN

06/19/2026

06/18/2026

Day 2 of 2026 ACORN convention was an absolute blast! 💥
Gala dinner, Doorknocking, speakers including Avi Lewis and Marie-Josée Houle and lots of making friends from across the country!

06/16/2026

Check out this awesome news coverage of AB leaders fighting to 🔥https://acorncanada.org/video/should-calgary-cap-apartment-temperatures/

Sign the online action for a max heat bylaw: https://acorncanada.org/take_action/help-calgary-tenants-beat-the-heat-this-summer/

06/09/2026

06/07/2026

ACORN 2026 Convention Day 1 in the books!

05/28/2026

Landlord Licensing Civics Workshop!
ACORN is organizing for real concrete changes in law!
Tenants have almost no protections in Alberta but we’re going to change that!

05/25/2026

Calgary Max Temp Bylaw NOW! 🔥🌡️☀️ 🥵
We know the Province may fight a Maximum Temperature Bylaw. We know housing standards have historically been treated as provincial jurisdiction. And we already know this provincial government is not planning to protect tenants from extreme heat.

But that cannot be an excuse for inaction while we wait for more renters to get sick and die in dangerously hot apartments.

Right now, Calgary already licenses rental properties and enforces fire safety standards through that system. We are saying the City should expand those protections to include extreme indoor heat and other serious health and safety protections.

If the Province wants to block municipalities from protecting tenants during deadly heat waves, then they should have to say that publicly. They should have to explain why they refuse to act themselves while also preventing cities from acting.

Waiting quietly for another level of government to maybe care someday will not save lives in the next heat wave.

Let’s force the issue into the open, build pressure and people power, and make it politically impossible to ignore that renters are being left unprotected as temperatures rise.

Calgary must choose to lead because we can’t afford to wait.

05/24/2026

Today ACORN and launched our Maximum Temperature Bylaw campaign! 🌡️🔥

Calgarians are demanding action from City Hall to protect renters from dangerous indoor heat. No one should be forced to live in unsafe temperatures during extreme heat events.

We’re calling on the City of Calgary to:
❄️ Implement a Maximum Temperature Bylaw with a maximum indoor temperature of 26°C
❄️ Enforce the bylaw through a Landlord licensing program
❄️ Create a free portable air conditioner program for low-income households
❄️ Track heat related deaths and illnesses

Now you might be thinking: Hey wouldn’t this be a provincial issue?
And ordinarily you’d be right. it would be. However, we’re not holding our breath that a province wide apartment maximum temperature rule is high on the list of priorities for Danielle Smith and the UCP and they don’t seem interested in meeting with us to discuss it.

So we’re calling on the to act. Extreme heat is an issue of health and safety. It’s an issue of life and death.

The City MUST enforce a maximum temperature bylaw by implementing a landlord licensing system. This would enable them to enforce health and safety standards in rental apartments. Just like they already do for fire safety.

Will the province fight this?
Maybe. Probably. Let’s find out.
Because doing nothing is unacceptable and people are going to die.

In 2021, hundreds of seniors died (mostly low income renters) during the heat dome in B.C.
Extreme heat is becoming more common, and renters — especially low-income, seniors, disabled people, and those in older buildings — are being left without protections.

New Westminster became the first city in Canada to pass a Maximum Temperature Bylaw. Calgary must follow suit.

05/20/2026

Tuesday postering blitz!