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Can an apartment building people deny your application because you have a child?

I live in Calgary, AB in a shitty bsmt "apartment." We've been trying to find another apartment, well one that's clean at least. My husband makes like 3500/month so we have more than enough cash to pay the outrageous apartment rental costs. And we recently have been denied like 2-3 apartments not because we can't afford it or our credit is bad, no it's cause we have a 1 1/2yr old son and aparently he's too young to live in the building. I don't think they can deny your application based on whether or not u have kids. Isn't that ageism? I've never heard so many lame excuses as to why we can't live in a building. I just wanna know if they can get away with that!

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1. All Real Estate advertised on Canadarentals.net is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise "any preference, limitation or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, discrimination. " That's the first excerpt I found for Canada law, it's almost identical to US laws on equal housing. Familial status means presence of children, so no, they can't do that. If they are stupid enough to say it, file a complaint.