I've been waiting for the Ontario Fire Marshall's report and recommendations with anticipation.  The fire at 200 Wellesley struck home for me as I have a large number of social housing landlord clients where the incidence of compulsive hoarding is…

I've been reading about the Mayor's plan to raise $40 million in order to stem the city's budget crises projected to be about $700 million in this current fiscal year.  He flip-flopped on the intended use of the funds, and…

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 People get used to doing what they've always done.  After a while, they can't fathom doing that thing any other way.  Judges and adjudicators are no different, and perhaps are more…

There are a lot of tenant appeals to Divisional Court.  And just maybe, Divisional Court is getting tired of all the frivolous appeals lacking merit, brought only for delay.  I get a lot of calls asking about representation for appeals…

Yesterday was the final date for submissions on Bill 140, the Strong Communities Through Affordable Housing Act.  This Act will amend several acts such as the Planning act, and replace the Social Housing Reform Act with the new Housing Services…

Many people are not even aware that there is a unit within the Ministry of Housing called the Investigations and Enforcement Unit. Their job is simply.....to investigate and enforce offences under the Residential Tenancies Act.  Those include lockouts, the big…

Today FRPO, the Federation of Rental Property Owners of Ontario, announced a powerful initiative to point out the flaws in Ontario's broken rent arrears eviction system.  FRPO will be presenting the report to the Ministry, but urges all landlords, large…

Here’s a decision on a case of mine at the LTB, just released, that took a year to conclude.  The legal clinic, Neighbourhood Community Legal took an unreasonable and defiant position considering the overwhelming evidence against the tenant.  The matter…

Here's a week in the life of LTB scheduling insanity. This true story has taken place over the last 10 days in my practice:I wrote about this first fiasco in my previous blog.  Basically the Toronto South hearing blocks are…

If only it were easy to sue the crown.  If only politicians gave a damn.  On December 10th, 2010, my client and I attended at the Landlord and Tenant Board.  I was acting for a client in LTB file number…