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EDMONTON — Michael Janz and Sally Tang hide two-month old Miles as if he was a bag of drugs when they walk between their car and their suburban Edmonton condo.

“We call him Baby Moses because he’s not allowed in Egypt, and we have to carry him under our coat if we’re going through the parkade,” Janz said. “It’s the glances and stares you get from your neighbours,” Tang added. “They look at you and wonder if it’s a 21-and-older building, why is there a baby? It feels like we’re hiding him.”

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Janz and Tang live in an adult-only condo, a common age discrimination applied to multi-unit housing in Alberta, and one brewing a bitter feud between millennial families and family-friendly housing advocates on one side, and developers, industry advocates and seniors on the other, who want the province’s age discrimination in housing maintained.

Alberta is the last province in Canada to allow developers, condo boards and landlords to discriminate on who is allowed to live where based on age, except seniors. But following a human rights challenge, a court has given the government until January 2018 to reconsider what exemptions to a coming ban on age discrimination it will uphold.