Ontario
CondoBusiness
Elevator safety enforcers to impose new fines
Inadequately monitoring elevator technicians’ credentials could have financial consequences for multifamily landlords, condominium corporations and long-term care home and student residence operators in Ontario.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario vague on special economic zones
Ontario's Bill 5 is presented as a means to propel infrastructure, mining and resource development projects considered instrumental for economic development and safeguarding Canadian sovereignty.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
New college network aims to STEM tariff fallout
A newly launched network of Ontario community colleges is aiming to STEM tariff fallout and support economic development in the province’s mid-sized
regional centres.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Starlight completes new Barrie infill project
Starlight's latest rental project, The Shoreview, brings 215 rental suites to the city of Barrie, Ontario, overlooking the Lake Simcoe waterfront.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario consults on FM for protective refuge
The Ontario government is considering facilities management standards for animals that have been seized from their owners and placed in protective refuge.
Canadian Property Management
Commercial HVAC on demand response radar
Commercial HVAC controls are expected to return a sizable reduction in Ontario’s peak electricity loads for a relatively small injection of incentive funding.
REMI Network
Ontario devotes $228 million to modernize postsecondary facilities
Publicly assisted colleges and universities will be able to upgrade buildings and learning tools with the new funding.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario recharges energy efficiency budget
Ontario’s energy efficiency budget has been recharged with a pledged 12-year, $10.9-billion spending strategy that significantly boosts funding for commercial, industrial, institutional and residential electricity customers.
CondoBusiness
Ontario introduces crane inspection schedule
All tower crane components must now be inspected and verified to be operationally sound at 10-year intervals from either its manufacture date or its previous inspection.
Canadian Property Management
RioCan’s Jennifer Suess joins Order of Ontario
Jennifer Suess, senior vice president and general counsel with RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust, has been named to the Order of Ontario.
REMI Network
Modern hospital facility coming to Collingwood
The Ontario government is investing up to $95.5 million to build a new Collingwood General and Marine Hospital.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario re-evaluates steps for land use change
Proposed new provincial legislation would strip municipalities of their ability to request a record of site condition (RSC) in specified circumstances where the risk of site contamination is deemed to be low.
Canadian Property Management
New look proposed for Ontario security guards
Ontario's Solicitor General is considering new stipulations for private security uniforms and vehicles to create greater visual distinction from police forces.
Canadian Property Management
Ontario looks to unravel conservation easements
A proposed amendment to the Ontario Heritage Act could make it easier to extract developable parcels from properties that have a conservation easement registered on the title.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
More Ontario agencies to drop realty functions
The Ontario government is continuing to centralize realty functions within the Ministry of Infrastructure, with 12 additional provincial agencies now tapped to hand over their autonomy.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Construction kicks off on ‘Sky Towers’ in Barrie
SkyDev has begun construction on a multi-phase, master-planned apartment community in Barrie, Ontario, called "Sky Towers".
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ontario explores building official mobility
Ontario is considering opening up building official functions to professionals who have been trained and certified in other jurisdictions.
