As Ontario considers making digital and virtual processes permanent, the condo industry is addressing various privacy concerns.

While the relevance of geothermal has been percolating for years, the buzz is that more developers are starting to pay attention.

Construction is a billion-dollar industry in Canada. While most large projects at condominiums proceed relatively smoothly, there is always risk of friction for contractors and

The renovation work should aim to improve the property and make it more accessible for residents and visitors.

The flat license rate will penalize mid-rise and high-rise owners with extra costs if an elevator passes the periodic inspection and does not require a follow-up. It will be a bargain if just one follow-up inspection is required.

This pandemic has helped condo managers to identify relevant skill gaps in relation to being prepared for the unexpected.

A new slate of conservation and demand management (CDM) programs allocates $456 million for commercial, institutional and industrial consumers over the four-year period from 2021-24.

Up until May 31, 2021, condominium corporations can hold virtual meetings and use electronic voting, without a bylaw.

For now, residential and small business customers enrolled for either time-of-use (TOU) rates or tiered pricing under the provincial regulated price plan will be charged the off-peak TOU rate of 8.5 cents per kilowatt-hour for all electricity consumption.

Resident British Columbians own about 30 per cent of the properties subject to the speculation and vacancy tax, but account for just 6.6 per cent of collected revenue.

In some respects, hybrid meetings may actually be more complex than an exclusively virtual meeting or an in-person meeting.

In February, before the WHO declared a global pandemic, talk among the condo board at Palace Pier was of various news reports piling in.

While building codes and standards help regulate efficiency in new buildings, existing buildings have been operating with little oversight and, in fact, no insight at all into how energy and water was being used in our cities.

The six-month extension comes with an improved rate since the discount on pre-tax electricity consumption and transmission/distribution costs will increase to 33.2 per cent on November 1.

A recycled title adorns the Ontario government's latest initiative to be framed as red tape reduction. Bill 213, the Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2020, is an omnibus effort to amend more than two dozen statutes.

After scrambling to recalibrate their models in the early days of COVID-19-related shutdowns, analysts with Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator faced more uncharted territory when the hot weather arrived.

In the shadow of a possible second wave, realtors forge ahead with the new reality of buying and selling condos.