Ontario
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Building services seen as precarious employment
Cleaners, security guards, parking attendants and building-specific food service workers could attain union certification through a streamlined one-step process if proposed amendments to Ontario's Labour Relations Act are adopted.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario supports new Toronto long-term care home
Ontario is supporting the construction of a new long-term care home in downtown Toronto that will provide a supportive living environment for residents.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario schools to receive $1.4 bil for upgrades
Ontario is investing a total of $1.4 billion in 2017-18 to improve school buildings by repairing and upgrading elements such as roofs, flooring and plumbing systems.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario invests in York University Markham campus
Ontario is investing $127 million in the construction of a York University campus in Markham, which will be the first university campus in York Region.
CondoBusiness
Updated timeline released for condo law reforms
The Ministry of Government and Consumer Services has released an updated timeline for the roll out of condo law reforms.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario peak electricity price fails to shock
Ontario's recent electricity price adjustments have narrowed the gap between the on-peak and off-peak rates, while stretching the mid-peak to on-peak range a little farther apart.
CondoBusiness
Big data backs medium-density development
The development of courtyard apartments, multiplexes and town homes could be among the building blocks of better housing affordability in Ontario.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Infrastructure projects to get underway this summer
Construction on hundreds of infrastructure projects across Ontario will get underway this summer, including hospitals, schools, transit projects and roads.
CondoBusiness
Ontario to revise land use planning appeals system
In an effort to ensure Ontarians have access to faster and fairer hearings, the province plans to overhaul its land use planning appeals system.
CondoBusiness
Province releases updated land use plans
The Ontario government has released updated land use plans aimed at balancing the environment and vibrant communities as the Greater Golden Horseshoe grows.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario action plan promotes construction safety
Ontario has announced the implementation of a Construction Health and Safety Action Plan to help prevent construction injuries, illnesses and fatalities.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario invests $9-bil in hospital infrastructure
Ontario plans to invest an additional $9 billion to support the construction of new and upgraded hospital infrastructure across the province.
CondoBusiness
Reliable Elevators Act passes second reading
If it becomes law, the Reliable Elevators Act would require maintenance contractors to restore out-of-service elevators within 14 days in most buildings.
CondoBusiness
ACMO holds 40th anniversary celebration
ACMO feted 40 years of leading the condominium management profession using education, member services and public awareness with an anniversary celebration.
Canadian Property Management
Commercial electricity customers mull decision
Newly expanded eligibility for Ontario's Industrial Conservation Initiative could be even more punitive for smaller customers on the losing side of cost redistribution.
Canadian Property Management
Cities poised to terminate vacant unit rebate
Past, present and would-be recipients bristle at suggestions that the rebate is a subsidy or a disincentive to improve the marketability of their properties.
CondoBusiness
Ontario foreign buyer tax may drive Montreal sales
The QFREB says Ontario's new foreign buyer tax may increase the presence of foreign buyers in Montreal's real estate market.
