This morning, HRC Chief Commissioner Barbara Hall addressed stakeholders and the media in order to introduce the Commission’s new Policy Guideline on Rental Housing in Ontario.http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/en/resources/Policies/housingTo this point, there had not been a guideline tailored to rental housing, but stakeholders,…

I've written and spoken a fair bit about the Human Rights Code and how pending changes are going to make it unwise for landlords in Ontario, particularly small landlords, to take the risk of becoming landlords. Last year's "consultation" (if…

I've never been a big fan of mediation at the LTB. It's generally a waste of time in my opinion. But I had two cases in one week that brought it home.The first was a file up in Newmarket where…

It's nice to see small landlords starting to organize. God knows, tenants' organizations, funded by governments at all levels have been organizing, lobbying and pressing governments for the last 25 years. Make no mistake about it....there is a war going…

There are a number of tenant groups who claim to represent tenants. They include the Federation of Metro Tenants. CERA. ACTO and the legal aid clinic system. From my perspective, they don't represent tenants, but only a small sub-set of…