Ontario
REMI Network
Residential builders call for immigration reform
Ontario's residential builders want the federal government to seriously reform the immigration system to usher in skilled trades workers who have been trained abroad.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario boosts energy efficiency spending
The Ontario government has pledged $342 million in additional energy efficiency spending to be rolled out between the spring of 2023 and the end of 2024.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Wrongs to legacy tenant inflate renovation tab
Flouting requirements to re-house a legacy tenant has added more than $40,000 to a Windsor landlord’s apartment renovation tab.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario caps 2023 rent increase guideline at 2.5%
The Ontario government has set the 2023 rent increase guideline at 2.5 per cent, a rate much lower than inflation.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Ontario adds Associate Minister for housing
Michael Parsa takes on the new role of Associate Minister of Housing alongside Steve Clark, who stays in place as the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
CondoBusiness
Living with dignity in multi-generational housing
Multi-generational homes are often an afterthought for builders who continue to favour housing geared to nuclear families. Rarely do municipalities legislate them.
Canadian Property Management
Commercial leases attract political attention
Both the NDP and Green parties float concepts for standardized lease agreements and rent control guidelines in their recently released platforms for the June 2 Ontario election..
Canadian Property Management
Ontario contenders embrace energy conservation
The Ontario Liberals and NDP are making similar pledges to inject more funding into the energy conservation programs that have been downscaled during the current provincial government’s tenure.
Canadian Property Management
Large electricity customers step into the 2020s
Cost allocation factors for enrollees in Ontario's Industrial Conservation Initiative have been based on energy use in pre-pandemic July 2019. That will be updated for a new 12-month billing period beginning July 1.
Canadian Property Management
Electricity price embedding cycle begins anew
Ontario’s large commercial customers will have somewhat more straightforward parameters for carving out their share of the global adjustment as they prepare for expected summer peak demand.
REMI Network
New critical care tower coming to Sunnybrook
Plans for a new critical care tower at Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre will bring the hospital’s critical care units together under one roof.
Canadian Property Management
Putative budget promises tax credit extension
The Ontario government proposes a one-year extension of a refundable tax credit for building, acquiring or upgrading commercial and industrial buildings in areas outside the province's most flourishing markets.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario adds jobsite safety oversight options
Numerous references to “professional engineers” have been replaced solely with the word “engineers” within nine of Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety regulations.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
P.Eng registrar impels professional development
A new mandate for continuing professional development will bring Ontario’s professional engineers in line with those licensed to practice in all other Canadian provinces.
REMI Network
Ontario raising foreign homebuyer tax to 20 per cent across the province
Currently, the non-resident speculation tax only applies to homes purchased in the Greater Golden Horseshoe Region.
REMI Network
Ontario consulting on condo cancellation regs
The Ministry of Government and Consumer Services is asking for feedback as it consults on proposed regulations to address condo cancellations in Ontario.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario disburses electrician training funds
The $13 million funding allocation is an effort to steer more apprentice and journeyperson electricians to construction, maintenance and network cabling jobs.
