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Canadian Property Management
Commercial HVAC on demand response radar
Commercial HVAC controls are expected to return a sizable reduction in Ontario’s peak electricity loads for a relatively small injection of incentive funding.
REMI Network
Ontario devotes $228 million to modernize postsecondary facilities
Publicly assisted colleges and universities will be able to upgrade buildings and learning tools with the new funding.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario recharges energy efficiency budget
Ontario’s energy efficiency budget has been recharged with a pledged 12-year, $10.9-billion spending strategy that significantly boosts funding for commercial, industrial, institutional and residential electricity customers.
CondoBusiness
Ontario introduces crane inspection schedule
All tower crane components must now be inspected and verified to be operationally sound at 10-year intervals from either its manufacture date or its previous inspection.
Canadian Property Management
RioCan’s Jennifer Suess joins Order of Ontario
Jennifer Suess, senior vice president and general counsel with RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, has been named to the Order of Ontario.
REMI Network
Modern hospital facility coming to Collingwood
The Ontario government is investing up to $95.5 million to build a new Collingwood General and Marine Hospital.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario re-evaluates steps for land use change
Proposed new provincial legislation would strip municipalities of their ability to request a record of site condition (RSC) in specified circumstances where the risk of site contamination is deemed to be low.
Canadian Property Management
New look proposed for Ontario security guards
Ontario's Solicitor General is considering new stipulations for private security uniforms and vehicles to create greater visual distinction from police forces.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario looks to unravel conservation easements
A proposed amendment to the Ontario Heritage Act could make it easier to extract developable parcels from properties that have a conservation easement registered on the title.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
More Ontario agencies to drop realty functions
The Ontario government is continuing to centralize realty functions within the Ministry of Infrastructure, with 12 additional provincial agencies now tapped to hand over their autonomy.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Construction kicks off on ‘Sky Towers’ in Barrie
SkyDev has begun construction on a multi-phase, master-planned apartment community in Barrie, Ontario, called "Sky Towers".
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario explores building official mobility
Ontario is considering opening up building official functions to professionals who have been trained and certified in other jurisdictions.
Canadian Property Management
Clinically fit space on the leasing agenda
A small but noteworthy cohort of tenants will be leasing specialized space as the Ontario government moves toward granting licences for new independently operated surgical and diagnostic clinics.
REMI Network
Property reassessment still on hold in Ontario
Ontario’s fall economic statement confirms that property reassessment is still on hold, but a small tweak is in the works to alleviate the tax burden on some student housing projects.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario’s sprinkler deadline up for discussion
Some of Ontario’s long-term care home operators could be getting an 18-month extension on a looming deadline to install automatic sprinklers for fire suppression
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Committee of adjustment workload could shrink
Proposed new rules could sideline the committee of adjustment when Ontario property owners add one or two additional residential units on lots zoned for single-family homes in urban areas.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ad hoc venues trigger risk management headaches
Public gatherings in informal, unlicensed venues are creating risk management headaches for local officials in large and small Ontario communities.