Whether it improves the sustainability of your condo operations, reduces waste, increases energy efficiency, reduces water consumption or just beautifies the environment surrounding your property, we’d like to hear from you - just send us an email with a subject line of “CCI Green Condo Page”. We hope to hear from you soon. Please send any comments or suggestions to cci.mb.news@gmail.com.

Condo Corporations have experienced rising insurance premiums over the past couple of years.As winter approaches and settles in, most condo owners that can’t escape south will likely start complaining about the weather and slippery conditions on roads, sidewalks and parking lots. Read on if you want to reduce potential slip and fall claims which could impact insurance premiums.

The City of Winnipeg has formalized their process and set up a web page to better engage all stakeholders on the issue of regulating short term rentals (STRs) https://engage.winnipeg.ca/short-term-rentals. While there is a visible lull in activity in the Council chamber due to the municipal election, City staff are working diligently in the background to have recommendations to Council during the winter. CCI Manitoba will continue to monitor the progress and provide updates throughout the process.

While there has been a lull in activity in the City of Winnipeg in regards to the imposition of a multi-family waste diversion (WFWD) fee, the Provincial Government has started a project that will disrupt the City's plans to some extent.

Here are some new items and others concerning previous newsletter articles, Lunch-n-Learns, webinars and Conversations in previous Newsletter editions. If you want to contribute to the discussion, you can make a submission to cci-manitoba.ca/resources/condo-conversation-corner.

We encourage you to submit suggestions for improving the Provincial Condo Act to us via https://cci-manitoba.ca/resources/the-condominium- act-suggestions-for-improvement. We have started posting these ‘suggestions for improvement’ in our quarterly Condominium News and Views. In case you missed the improvement suggestions in the prior editions, you can search the newsletter archive at https://cci-manitoba.ca/members-only/newsletter-archive.

The City of Winnipeg has a web page with information about their recycling strategy for multi-family properties https://engage.winnipeg.ca/recycling-strategy-for-apartments-and-condos.