Federal scrutiny of condo procurement should be sufficient reason for diligent condo boards to examine their procurement practices.

How can condo corporations handle losses that are below their deductible?

Ottawa’s Shaw Centre, a 192,000-square-foot convention facility in the city’s parliamentary district, has received $2 million from the Ontario government to help cover operational and maintenance costs.

Removing landlords from the application process hasn’t necessarily made the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) more accessible for commercial tenants experiencing pandemic-related financial stress.

$13 million is earmarked to support the resumption of in-person attendance at programming offered in cultural centres, museums, sports facilities, arts spaces and agricultural society halls.

Low interest rates, flexibility to defer payments and various government-funded programs synergized into what are characterized as “exceptional” circumstances in a recessionary period.

The 2021 budget also introduces a temporary doubling of the C3i tax credit for expenditures on computer hardware, management software or manufacturing and processing equipment.

COVID-19 could also introduce a new workplace trend: “the liquid workplace.” Tech giant Dropbox already embraces this new model.

The federal government reserved the option to adjust the funding levels after March 13 when it introduced the subsidy for fixed property expenses last November.

Alberta’s education mill rate has nudged up 0.1 basis point, adding $0.01 per $1,000 of assessed value to the provincial portion of property tax bills.

Women were jettisoned from 14,300 of the roughly 16,000 positions Ontario's real estate, rental and leasing sector shed last year.

Isle of Man and Jersey are drawing high-net-worth individuals looking for a combination of financial secrecy and low corporate taxes, advises a leading mortgage broker for such clientele.

Relief helps to offset a year when RevPAR plummeted by 60 per cent relative to 2019 and the 12-monrh average hotel occupancy rate barely nudged above 33 per cent.

Loans of $25,000 to $1 million will be available through the Highly Affected Sectors Credit Availability Program (HASCAP), fully guaranteed by the Business Development Bank of Canada.

A sustainability plan and budget should be made with the mindset of plan and prevent, instead of react and pivot.

Commercial evictions are still on hold in Ontario for qualifying tenants experiencing pandemic-related financial stress. A new regulation, enabled through 2020 budget legislation, extends the protections.

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.