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Canadian Apartment Magazine

Housing at the forefront of Toronto’s mayoral race

The 2026 mayoral race is heating up with rental housing in the spotlight as the city prepares to head to the polls on October 26.
Regulatory labyrinth houses tenant utility data

Canadian Property Management

Regulatory labyrinth houses tenant utility data

Efforts to secure aggregated energy and water use data from tenant utility accounts typically cast commercial asset managers into a regulatory labyrinth.

REMI Network

Countdown to AODA filing begins in Ontario

Ontario organizations with 20 or more employees are required to file an Accessibility Compliance Report under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA) by December 31, 2026.
New Alberta solar panel fee has opaque costing

Canadian Property Management

New Alberta solar panel fee has opaque costing

Alberta consumers will pay an extra $14 on the upfront cost of a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel when a new environmental fee goes into effect on Oct. 1.
Dark edge awaits Alberta and B.C. schools

Canadian Property Management

Dark edge awaits Alberta and B.C. school days

Students in Alberta and British Columbia will be starting their school days in the darkness for part of this new academic year once the two provinces transition to permanent daylight saving time.
Legionnaires

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Legionnaires outbreak renews focus on facility risk

A recent Toronto Public Health investigation has identified a cooling tower at the Toronto Transit Commission’s Hillcrest Complex as the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak.
counter-tariffs

Design Quarterly

Tariff pressure intensifies for woodworkers

Canada’s secondary wood manufacturing sector sees U.S. measure extend beyond previously tariffed finished products into selected furniture, millwork, panels and cutting tools.
trade war

Canadian Apartment Magazine

When trade war fallout hits the housing market

Housing developers already battling labour shortages, high interest rates, and soaring land costs now face a new destabilizing force as the Canada–U.S. trade war disrupts every stage of construction.
Gordie Howe Bridge

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Port of entry prioritizes stress-reducing design

Moriyama Teshima Architects designed a calming campus that reflects Canada’s natural history amidst an otherwise hyper-surveillanced area.
New split for global adjustment costs explored

Canadian Property Management

New split for global adjustment costs explored

Ontario proposes a distinct electricity rate class for new data centres, as part of a package of requirements for facilities seeking to connect to the provincial power grid.
building records

Canadian Apartment Magazine

The hidden weak link in building records

As veteran facility managers retire, decades of building records and the knowledge behind them are vanishing, creating costly blind spots for owners and insurers.
aging in place

CondoBusiness

Evolving smart home tech redefines aging in place

Emerging technologies are powering homes into active support systems that can monitor, predict and respond to the changing needs of older adults and boost their
Hazards switching out in energy transition

Canadian Property Management

Hazards switching out in the energy transition

The energy transition comes with a risk management learning curve as one potentially hazardous mainstay gives way to another.
procedural changes lease

Canadian Apartment Magazine

When procedural changes backfire

A tenant uprising at a high‑rise in Etobicoke is fast becoming a cautionary tale for Ontario landlords, after residents pushed back against sudden procedural changes that disrupted how they pay rent.
Winter maintenance budgeting gets slipperier

Facility Cleaning & Maintenance

Winter maintenance budgeting gets slipperier

A threatened 50 per cent tariff on Canadian road salt imported into the United States is creating winter maintenance budgeting uncertainties on both sides of the international border.
Ontario Building Code perched on cutting edge

Canadian Property Management

Ontario Building Code perched on cutting edge

The first-ever comprehensive review of the Ontario Building Code has a mandate to root out duplications, anachronisms and undue complexities that have accumulated over the course of 50 years.
IAQ

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Tech access to boost occupants’ IAQ oversight

Greater access to low-cost indoor air quality (IAQ) sensors may create new scrutiny for facility management teams.