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Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario adds jobsite safety oversight options
Numerous references to “professional engineers” have been replaced solely with the word “engineers” within nine of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety regulations.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
P.Eng registrar impels professional development
A new mandate for continuing professional development will bring Ontario’s professional engineers in line with those licensed to practice in all other Canadian provinces.
REMI Network
Ontario raising foreign homebuyer tax to 20 per cent across the province
Currently, the non-resident speculation tax only applies to homes purchased in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region.
REMI Network
Ontario consulting on condo cancellation regs
The Ministry of Government and Consumer Services is asking for feedback as it consults on proposed regulations to address condo cancellations in Ontario.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario disburses electrician training funds
The $13 million funding allocation is an effort to steer more apprentice and journeyperson electricians to construction, maintenance and network cabling jobs.
Canadian Property Management
Michelle Noble to champion Ontario cleantech
Michelle Noble has been named the first fulltime executive director of the Ontario Environment Industry Association, in step with the expanding cleantech and environmental services sectors.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Architecture schools strategic to accessibility
Ontario's EnAbling Change program delivers a new round of grants to support shared-cost projects led by not-for-profit corporations, industry organizations or professional associations.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Corporate officers to assume more liability
Omnibus legislation aims to ease transition for licensed trades and professions moving into Ontario, and to enshrine steeper maximum fines in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario mulls its site redevelopment potential
A centralized agency will be tasked with identifying provincially owned sites with redevelopment potential, placing a priority on new uses that align with infrastructure initiatives.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario not sticking with plate renewal fees
The Ontario government will eliminate its license plate sticker system for passenger and light-duty vehicles, motorcycles and mopeds, and forego the associated revenue.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Building code harmonization advances
Consultations are underway in the ongoing exercise to harmonize the Ontario Building Code with model national building, energy and plumbing codes.
Canadian Property Management
Watchdog projects Ontario electricity subsidies
The Financial Accountability Office of Ontario pegs the cost of nine provincial programs at more than $118 billion over a 20-year period, with the largest share ascribed to the Ontario Electricity Rebate.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario may relax squeeze on storage sheds
A proposed regulatory change would allow storage sheds to be 50 per cent bigger before Ontario property owners would have to obtain building permits.
CondoBusiness
Ontario explores overnight electricity discount
A proposed new optional time-of-use electricity rate structure in Ontario could introduce ultra-low pricing for overnight power consumption in tandem with an added premium for on-peak periods of the day.
REMI Network
Elementary school bound for new condo in Toronto
Ontario is collaborating with Menkes Developments and the Toronto District School Board on this provincial first and investing $44 million into the project.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Air purification supplier ramps up production
Ontario-based manufacturer, Abatement Technologies, has a $20-million expansion project underway to increase production capacity at its facility in Fort Erie.
REMI Network
Condo amenity closures during Omicron
As Ontario’s modified Step Two measures have shuttered most indoor sports and recreational facilities, members of the industry are weighing in on condo amenity closures amidst the highly contagious Omicron variant.
