Canadian One-party Consent Recording Law + Roommate Noise Violations: What Are My Rights?

Location: Canada

I live in an off-campus student house with several other girls. Everyone is nice, quiet, and respectful except the girl in the room right beside me, we’re the only two on this floor. Since September 2025, she’s been constantly loud (blasting music on her speaker, speakerphone calls, frequent day and overnight guests, and late-night noise until 1–3 AM, even weekdays). I go to sleep hearing her and wake up hearing her. I obviously don’t mind daytime noise but when it’s past 1 am almost every night, it really affects my sleep.

I’ve tried everything: talking to her in person, knocking politely, texting, and even involving the landlord, It improves briefly, then the noise comes back.

Now it’s April (finals), and it’s worse again, people over late, loud voices waking me up. This morning I confronted her and asked her to please mind her volume. Her friend stepped in and started recording me without consent while I was anxious and emotional. At one point, the friend accused me of implying something racist because my roommate is Black, but I clearly said it had nothing to do with race, I was just nervous confronting someone I don’t know very well because we are basically strangers living together and we’ve never had a conversation outside of me asking her to please quiet down, I’ve even bought her chocolates to wish her a happy new year, and I’m very anxious and non-confrontational. My issue isn’t her race, it is the repeated noise and lack of respect for quiet hours. I’m not a bad person, I literally just am a student that wants to live in peace.

They said they deleted the video but refused to show me proof, saying that they have the right to record me because I’m over 18 and Canadian one-party consent laws allow recording.

Now I’m stressed about the video and the possibility of the video being shared or posted out of context. I didn’t say or do anything bad/incriminating in it or in the entire conversation, I was just overwhelmed and crying in it. My lease ends in a few weeks, but I need peace to study and now I can’t stop worrying about this video.

What should I do? Should I follow up about the video or let it go? What are my rights if it’s posted?