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Canadian Apartment Magazine
Rental sector reacts to Budget 2025
The new federal budget signals a renewed push to accelerate housing construction, placing housing supply at the centre of the economic agenda.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Multifamily holds steady in economic headwinds
Despite six consecutive quarters of rent growth deceleration, Yardi reports its not all bad news on the horizon for Canadian apartment owners and operators.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario Fire Code updates for apartment owners
Effective January 1, 2026, significant updates to the Ontario Fire Code will impact how residential buildings are equipped, maintained, and operated.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Rental scams are rising
Missed rent payments and rental scams are rising across Canada in 2025, creating serious financial risks for landlords.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Firefighting foams on track to detoxify
PFAS are tapped to be classified as toxic substances due to their adverse properties and potential to be dispersed into the environment in quantities and/or concentrations that could pose immediate or long-term harm.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Workforce barriers persist for Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous participation in Ontario’s economy is vital for advancing both community prosperity and broader business growth. Yet many Indigenous people face persistent barriers to education and employment.
CondoBusiness
Condo downturn “less severe” than 1990s crash
Toronto’s once-booming condo market has been deteriorating over the past year, echoing the condo crash of the 1990s. However, a new report from Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation suggests a less severe outcome this time around.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Vancouver rec facilities face decommissioning risk
Recreational facilities across Vancouver face higher operating costs and lagging service delivery in the absence of a capital asset management framework.
Canadian Property Management
Telecom system outages tied to new protocols
Internet and cell phone service providers in Canada must be ready to comply with new protocols for responding to and reporting major system outages by November this year.
CondoBusiness
Recent cases clarify reasonable conduct
Being reasonable is a fundamental aspect of condominium living, but it is not always easy to determine what it means to act reasonably within shared spaces.
Canadian Property Management
Non-profit organizations tapped for big reveal
Proposed new filing requirements reflect the Canadian government's intention to enumerate a segment of the tax-exempt sector that has been largely unquantified.
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.
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
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 Apartment Magazine
Keeping cool in Canadian apartments
Legal expert Joe Hoffer offer insights for landlords amid calls for mandatory cooling systems into federally funded retrofits and new construction.





















