Blog Posts
Submitted By: admin on Mar 06, 2018
As you know marijuana smoking and limited cultivation will become legal federally as early as July 2018. All of us involved in condominium governance are very concerned about its implications.
As the saying goes, it’s better to fix the roof on a sunny day. Therefore, you and your board...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Feb 13, 2018
At roughly 10:45 p.m. on October 31st, the province released the new, prescribed forms that became effective November 1st. Since then, condominium managers, boards of directors, owners and residents have had to work them. It’s been frustrating for everyone.
In...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Feb 08, 2018
In July 2016 we wrote our first Blog entry on the deplorable state of elevator repair in Ontario. Since then there has been some progress. Most notably, Ontario is looking to boost elevator availability in multi-storey residential buildings. The provincial government plans to establish a data-...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Feb 02, 2018
As of February 1, 2018, the Condominium Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario (CMRAO) will begin to assess complaints against the province’s recently finalized Code of Ethics found in O.Reg. 3/18 adopted under the Condominium...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Jan 19, 2018
On January 16, 2018, the Ontario government announced a program called the Workplace Electric Vehicle Charging Incentive Program (WEVCIP). Their intent was to support installing charging stations at workplaces to make it easier for people to use Electric Vehicles (EVs) to get to and from work...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Dec 22, 2017
We released our Electric Vehicle (EV) charger protocol way back in October of 2013 – nine months before the mass-market Tesla Model 3 was even announced on Twitter. The protocol encouraged the installation of EV chargers in condominiums by providing a pathway for our managers and boards to...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Nov 28, 2017
As of November 1st, many sections of the amended Condominium Act, 1998 and regulation O. Reg. 48/01 have become effective.
We have now come full circle. We started with the Condominium Act, 1998 and regulation O. Reg. 48/01. After extensive consultation, the...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Oct 19, 2017
On Wednesday, November 22nd from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Crossbridge will host an informative Directors’ Seminar on the impact of the new condominium act.
The seminar will feature industry leaders from the Canadian Condominium Institute (CCI), and senior officials from the...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Sep 21, 2017
In his September 19 article entitled More About the Mandatory Training for Condo Directors. Rob Escayola of Gowling WLG provides an excellent summary of the...Read more
Submitted By: admin on Aug 04, 2017
As the provincial government slowly finalizes the many regulations that complete and give substance to the new condominium act, we are getting a more complete picture of the changes that that will begin to take effect September 1 (payment of CAO fees) and November 1 (licensing of managers, and...Read more