Ontario
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.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
No electricity rate reprieve with this lockdown
There has been no rate relief with the latest stay-at-home imperative, but the Ontario Energy Board has extended the annual prohibition on electricity shut-offs during the cold months to cover much of May.
REMI Network
Ontario further extends deadline for virtual meetings
The Ontario government has extended the deadline for condo corporations to hold their meetings virtually and permit electronic voting without a bylaw.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario looks to stabilize and revive tourism
A $350-million tonic will be poured out in the form of direct aid for small operators, support programs for larger attractions, and inducements for consumers.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario doubles tax credit in tertiary markets
Canadian-controlled private corporations are eligible for refundable tax credits of up to $90,000 for building investments in southwest, eastern and northern Ontario.
REMI Network
Ontario ramps up long-term care spaces
On the heels of a third wave advisory, Ontario is issuing thousands more long-term care spaces to be built across the province, many resulting in the construction of new homes.
REMI Network
Ontario bestows land for community hub in Jane and Finch area
Ontario is donating 2.174 acres of land to the City of Toronto to build a much-needed community hub and centre for the arts in the Jane and Finch community.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario schools get funds for energy upgrades
Funds are drawn from the carbon pricing proceeds the federal government collects and redistributes in provinces that have not enacted their own carbon pricing programs.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Northwest Ontario inmates await needed space
Work will soon be underway to ease overcrowding at two Northwest Ontario correctional facilities in the interim before a planned new 325-inmate complex is built in the region.
Canadian Property Management
Women bear brunt of 2020 real estate job loss
Women were jettisoned from 14,300 of the roughly 16,000 positions Ontario's real estate, rental and leasing sector shed last year.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario prepares mega-site inventory
Newmark Global Commercial Real Estate Services has been named to lead the selection process once the in-progress call for 500- to 1,500-acre mega-sites closes on July 31.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario to stretch energy efficiency spending
A new slate of conservation and demand management (CDM) programs allocates $456 million for commercial, institutional and industrial consumers over the four-year period from 2021-24.
