An increasing number of condos within the last two months have implemented mandatory vaccination policies, which apply to indoor common element amenity users and on-site employees.

A vaccine policy for amenity use may spark emotionally-charged debates from opposing residents and enforcing it proves challenging.

The Ontario government has further extended the deadline for condo corporations to hold virtual meetings and permit electronic voting without a bylaw.

Bonflict of interest on the board of directors is a topic that often raises ire of many owners and prospective buyers.

How would this scenario unfold in Ontario? Leaving aside the construction process itself, there are vast differences between Ontario and Florida condominium laws that would have given the Champlain towers significant added protections following registration.

There are strategies that can be helpful to consider in recognition of the fact that reactive approaches to conflict can be quite costly for condo boards.

In some condos, communication channels break down or don’t exist, causing unnecessary expenditures that corporations and owners must incur.

It is unlikely that the condo’s declaration, bylaws, rules, or policies include any reference to trust; yet good governance cannot be achieved without it.

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

More than 70 board members and condo managers recently completed a workshop to earn the industry's first certification for chairing virtual meetings.

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.

Condominiums need to be careful when they decide to chargeback costs to an owner and must ensure they have the legal right to do so before they start lien proceedings.

The condo, located at 2045 Lakeshore Blvd West, stood out from its contemporaries with an early call to action when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

There is a significant shift in the way condo corporations are managing common elements, noisy neighbours and condo meetings.

Opponents of electronic voting are scared it will expose the archaic and flawed system of proxy voting for what it is: unnecessary and obsolete.

The Province of Alberta is launching new condo rules that will increase transparency and improve condominium governance in the province.