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BC Housing has released details regarding eligibility and has launched the application process of the recently created BC Temporary Rental Supplement Program

Tenants now have more time to find alternate housing if their landlord ends a tenancy in order to demolish, renovate, or convert a unit and requires the unit to be vacant.

The Competition Bureau recently announced that Empire (the parent company of IGA, Sobeys, etc.), agreed to remove an exclusive/restrictive covenant in favour of the IGA...

Last year I blogged about a Nanaimo commercial tenant who defeated her landlord’s claim for unpaid rent on the grounds the lease had been fundamentally breached.

The Ontario Court of Appeal has ruled that a force majeure clause can be triggered without requiring fault or breach by the affected party. In a dispute between a fitness club operator and its landlord over COVID-19 closures, the court confirmed that government restrictions preventing in-person operations constituted a force majeure event, extending the lease term without additional rent obligations.

Communications between lawyer and client are generally privileged.

The space in which a business operates can say a lot about its culture and values. Over the years, trends have shifted with businesses transforming their working environments from multiple private offices

Effective January 1, 2005, the Canada Revenue Agency (the "CRA") has reversed its long-standing administrative policy on single-purpose corporations typically used by Canadian residents who own residential real estate or vacation properties in the United States. Consequently, many issues arise from an estate planning perspective for Canadian residents who already own or who plan to purchase personal-use residential property in the US.

The Ontario Court of Appeal recently clarified this, concluding that creditors are only allowed to claim against the debtor's divisible interest in the property.

Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc in New York and New Jersey recently, and attracted worldwide attention.

In V Hazelton Limited v. Perfect Smile Dental Inc., 2019 ONCA 423 (the Decision), the Ontario Court of Appeal (the Court) considered the longstanding common law requirement that a sublessor reserve

The British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) recently held that structural consultants have a prima facie duty of care to the owner of a building to ensure that the building...

As a general matter, estoppel certificates, sometimes referred to as status statements or acknowledgments, essentially set forth and confirm the veracity of a lease and identify its key terms. Rooted in the principle of promissory estoppel, estoppel certificates are intended to "estop" a party who signs the certificate from thereafter asserting a fact inconsistent with what is set out in the certificate.

The Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance ("CECRA") program expired on January 31, 2021, and the moratorium on eviction and distress rights of landlords against commercial tenants under the program along with it.

Congratulations on your favourable RTB decision! Unfortunately, the RTB cannot help you collect on the Monetary Order you just received. Instead, the Residential Tenancy Act allows an order...

The industrial real estate sectors in Calgary and specifically, Rocky View County, and Edmonton, have experienced a consistent demand for both purchase and lease transactions over the past several years.

On April 24, 2017, the Ontario government introduced new legislation, the Rental Fairness Act, 2017 which includes a number of proposed amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (the "RTA").