Ontario
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Heritage designations to pale in worship space
Heritage designations could pose fewer complications for religious and Indigenous organizations in Ontario when they undertake repairs and alternations in places of worship and spiritual practices.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
EV charger funds directed outside big cities
Subsidies are now on offer for EV charger installations on publicly accessible sites in small to mid-sized Ontario communities with populations no greater than 170,000.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario set to tweak excess soil regulations
Proposed amendments to Ontario’s excess soil regulations would allow salt-contaminated fill on a wider range of sites and simplify landscape projects on industrial properties.
Canadian Property Management
Infrastructure frailties imbue on-reserve risks
Ontario's recently released climate risk assessment concludes on-reserve buildings, utilities, storm water management, transportation links and communications networks are already highly vulnerable.
REMI Network
Student debt quashing home buying dreams in Ontario
OREA has proposed several recommendations to help address the housing affordability crisis that young graduates are facing.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario’s targeted incentives fund LEDs and VFDs
Commercial, multi-residential and institutional electricity customers in Ottawa and select areas of Toronto are eligible for targeted incentives through Ontario’s BizEnergySaver program.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario keeps clinging to 2016 market values
The recent regulation to postpone Ontario's property reassessment for another year stretches the assessment cycle to double its originally intended time span.
CondoBusiness
Ontario eyes purchase agreements for new builds
The Ontario government is considering whether to mandate the legal review of purchase agreements for units in new condominium developments.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario extends deadline for energy/water data
The deadline to submit consumption data to Ontario’s energy and water reporting and benchmarking program has been extended to help accommodate this year's large new cohort of mandated participants.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario announces 2024 rent increase guideline
Allowable rent increases will max out at 2.5 per cent for most of Ontario’s sitting residential tenants in 2024, trailing the current 5.9 per cent average inflation rate.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario passes controversial Bill 97
Among the changes impacting landlords, Bill 97 includes new protections to limit “renovictions” and introduces changes to the “landlord’s own use” clause.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario offers bonus incentives for retrofits
Bonus incentives for energy efficiency upgrades will be available to select commercial and multifamily landlords and condominium corporations in Ontario during the second and third quarters of 2023.
CondoBusiness
Ontario awaits patchy debut of discount power
Most condominium corporations and rental housing landlords will need to make capital investments in energy storage to realize the benefits of Ontario's ultra-low overnight electricity rate.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Cooling deemed key amenity for Ontario renters
Conceptually, the proposed rules establish air conditioning as a protected option that tenants cannot be prevented from obtaining rather than an essential that landlords would be compelled to supply.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Changes impacting Ontario landlords and tenants
The Ontario government is proposing changes to strengthen protections against renovictions; it is also increasing staff at the LTB to better serve landlords and tenants.
REMI Network
Ontario eyes permanency of virtual meetings, e-voting
Ontario is proposing to implement permanent changes under the Condo Act with respect to virtual meetings and e-voting under its newly announced Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023,
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario lifts income threshold for incentives
More Ontario households will qualify for free energy-saving equipment and advice with a newly announced lift to the income threshold for the provincial Energy Affordability Program.
