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Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ministers shift around expanded Ontario cabinet
The 28-member reconfigured roster brings some fresh faces to portfolios of key interest to the commercial real estate industry, but also leaves one of the most prominent players in place.
Canadian Property Management
Global adjustment status quo foreseen into 2020
The current formula for allocating global adjustment costs is generally thought to be locked in for at least another year. Changes in the conservation and demand management regime are unfolding more rapidly.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
New rules could help dislodge drug dealers
Proposed amendments to Ontario's Cannabis Control Act would allow authorities to lock down and bar entry to residential dwellings in the course of laying charges
Canadian Apartment Magazine
New apartment development planned for Kingston, Ontario
A new apartment development is coming to Kingston, ON, featuring three new rental buildings comprised of 788 units and over 600,000 square feet of total area.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario Fire Code to add steeper fine bracket
More stringent fines and an extended period for prosecutions are slated to come into force 30 days after the Ontario legislature adopts the Budget Measures Act.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario spurns unpaid building code advisors
The 2019 Ontario budget lists the Building Code Conservation Advisory Council among 10 provincial agencies deemed to be unnecessary or imprudent expenditures.
Canadian Property Management
Municipalities could lose clout on MPAC board
A new government means a new round of scrutiny for Ontario's property assessment agency.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
LTB collects $13 million in Ontario fee revenue
The volume and sum of Tribunal admin charges exceed most other tolls tied to commercial real estate and/or professional and skilled personnel who work in the industry.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario reroutes CDM program delivery
Local distribution companies have been the prime drivers of the Conservation First Framework, tasked with collectively attaining 7 million megawatt-hours of energy savings in the 2015-2020 period.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario announces infrastructure funding program
Ontario recently announced plans for a new funding program to provide $30 billion over 10 years towards infrastructure projects across the province.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario touts public-private partnership savvy
Infrastructure Ontario will offer consulting services to the global market, pushing its experience overseeing dozens of major institutional construction projects.
CondoBusiness
Work-at-heights training program successful: study
According to a study by the Institute for Work and Health, Ontario’s working-at-heights training program is successful at preventing worker injuries.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario invests $1.6 mil in community agency renos
The Government of Ontario is investing $1.6 million in over 60 projects that will upgrade and repair community agencies across the province.
CondoBusiness
Ontario to introduce new home warranty regulator
The Ontario government has announced plans to transform Tarion Warranty Corporation and implement initiatives to better inform and protect new home buyers.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario cues agenda for industrial properties
The action is included in a list of initiatives associated with Bill 66, the proposed Restoring Ontario's Competitiveness Act, even though none of the bill's dozens of legislative amendments pertain to the Assessment Act.
CondoBusiness
Affordable housing set for surplus federal properties
Surplus federal properties in Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland are set to be repurposed into affordable housing as part of the Federal Lands Initiative.
CondoBusiness
Ontario aims to modernize real estate laws
The Ontario government is reviewing the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act, 2002 by seeking public input in an effort to modernize real estate laws.
