Management
CondoBusiness
Brokerage reform urged amidst iPro scandal
Although all attention is currently on iPro, its shutdown speaks to larger issues around buyer protection.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto set to adjust business licensing regime
An unfolding effort to simplify Toronto’s business licensing regime promises reduced paperwork and a more technologically proficient process, but comes with at least one new user fee.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Rental living at its finest
Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, Fitzrovia's "Elm-Ledbury" is a two-tower rental community featuring high-end services and amenities.
CondoBusiness
AI policies guide appropriate use
Without guidelines, AI can expose confidential data, weaken a brand, or produce results that mislead owners, residents, clients, or partners.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Transforming the Hazel McCallion Central Library
When the Hazel McCallion Central Library was added to the Mississauga Civic Centre in 1991, its postmodern aesthetic and dark layout remained primarily unchanged for nearly three decades.
Canadian Property Management
Climate response investment promises paybacks
With science offering up assurance that climate response will be a long-term and intensifying societal need, analysts suggest this could be a lucrative time to get into a surging market.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Safety gaps flagged in Canadian workplaces
Most respondents who reported experiencing a work-related incident or illness (or knowing someone who has) say it was stress-related, with this figure being significantly higher in Canada.
Canadian Property Management
ENERGY STAR caught in legislative limbo
For now, ENERGY STAR’s various labelling, certification and benchmarking initiatives are in a precarious, but not necessarily fatal position.
Canadian Property Management
Economic reconciliation comes with CRE upside
New guidance explores what's involved in “meaningful consultation” and “equitable access” to benefits in the context of project development and broader commercial real estate business operations.
Construction Business
Federal procurement practices ripe for reform
A new report on the Canadian government’s procurement practices recommends reforms to reduce costs, save time, ease complications and improve accountability.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Repurposing Canada’s religious buildings
As church congregations dwindle across Canada and the cost to maintain their faith-built spaces increases, ideas abound for how to repurpose these buildings into potential
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
New legislation affects Ontario’s restroom cleaning practices
Starting July 1, 2025, a new requirement will be enforced for all employers in the province of Ontario. Adopted as part of Bill 190 –
Canadian Property Management
Canadian investors escape super BEAT down
International negotiations have given Canadian investors a reprieve from threatened higher costs of doing business in the United States commercial real estate market.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Trent U plans Canada’s largest mixed-use building
The growth of Trent University continues with a groundbreaking project. Construction has officially begun on Gidigaa Migizi College and the new Otonabee College residence.
Canadian Property Management
Crackdown on property controls clarified
New guidance from the Competition Bureau of Canada advises that reprieve could be given for exclusivity clauses in leases, but there will be little tolerance for restrictive covenants on land titles.
Canadian Property Management
Reality lags government downsizing ambitions
The Canadian government has made slow progress in downsizing its real estate portfolio and is carrying hundreds of millions of dollars in undue annual costs for sparsely occupied and obsolete office space.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Report explores current state of FM technology
Sourcing the right technology is becoming increasingly crucial for facility managers who oversee understaffed teams while facing more work orders.





















