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Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario to review accessibility in public spaces
Julie Sawchuk, an educator, accessibility strategist and RHFAC designated professional, will chair the newly announced standards development committee.
REMI Network
Ontario returning to modified Step 2 of reopening
The Ontario government announced it is temporarily moving to a modified version of its “Step 2” in the roadmap to reopening in an effort to control the surging Omicron variant.
Canadian Property Management
Subpar waste diversion trails Ontario target
About 85 per cent of waste from Ontario's businesses, public institutions, residential buildings with six or more units and construction/demolition sites ends up in landfill, including a vast amount of recyclable material.
Canadian Property Management
Overdue property reassessment raises alarm
Ontario’s overdue property reassessment is on hold until at least 2024, leaving many commercial ratepayers with a further wait to realize tax reductions from pandemic-related value erosion.
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
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.
