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Canadian Facility Management & Design
Subsidy to ease industrial site approval costs
Industrial land owners in Ontario could qualify for up to $25,000 to reimburse 50 per cent of the costs of municipal and provincial planning and environmental studies.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Community net metering demo set for Ontario
Sifton Properties’ West 5, a 70-acre mixed-use development in London, Ontario, will be a test site for an electricity generation and sharing model known as community net metering.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Remote building inspections to get code clarity
A proposed amendment to the Ontario Building Code would explicitly allow for alternatives to building inspectors’ physical presence on construction sites.
Canadian Property Management
Deadline set for energy-use data availability
A newly filed regulation instructs Ontario's electricity and gas distributors to be ready for the province-wide rollout of the Green Button program by November 2023.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario to give license on commercial mortgages
Sophisticated borrowers and lenders will be able to negotiate commercial mortgages through unlicensed channels if proposed regulatory amendments are enacted in Ontario.
CondoBusiness
Ontario proposes new RPP price-setting regimen
Electricity prices could become more responsive to fluctuating commodity costs if proposed regulatory amendments are adopted in Ontario.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
LTC operational shortfalls bared in heatwave
Heatwave conditions and operational shortfalls are posing challenges in some Ontario long-term care homes that do not have central air conditioning.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Civic building inventory lags on capital repair
Ontario’s civic building inventory has fallen the farthest behind on capital repair among seven categories of municipal infrastructure assets scrutinized in a newly released report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario.
REMI Network
New home regulator charges Ontario developer
Ontario’s Home Construction Regulatory Authority charged Ideal BC Developments after receiving complaints that the home builder had illegally entered into sales agreements.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New owner for long idle Ford assembly plant site
Broccolini's acquisition takes one of the largest available tracts of industrially zoned land in Canada off the market.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
CAPREIT expands presence in Ontario and B.C.
CAPREIT has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of seven apartment buildings in London, Ontario, and six apartment buildings in Victoria, B.C.
REMI Network
Facilities get COVID funding boost across eastern Ontario
More than $22 million in infrastructure upgrades will be shared among municipalities across eastern Ontario to protect the health and well-being of residents.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Indoor temperatures logged in Ontario LTC homes
There is still no requirement for air conditioning in all residents’ rooms, but Ontario long-term care home operators now have to implement prescribed measures to prevent heat-related illnesses.
Canadian Property Management
Heat is on for electricity demand projections
Electricity demand projections through the vaccination rollout period should take two contradictory factors into account, energy management specialists affirm.
Canadian Property Management
Parsing Ontario’s electricity cost allocation
After a year of operational upheaval and more modifications to electricity pricing policies, BOMA Toronto’s annual workshop to address the complexities of the global adjustment had a lot of ground to cover.
Canadian Property Management
Pandemic relief defrays Ontario insolvencies
Low interest rates, flexibility to defer payments and various government-funded programs synergized into what are characterized as “exceptional” circumstances in a recessionary period.
CondoBusiness
Power system revenue transcends lockdown relief
It appears that seven weeks of COVID-19-related electricity rate relief for residential and small business customers did not adversely undermine Ontario power system revenue.
