Building failures of this horrific scope are seldom seen in North America. But it is important to examine what happened so we can learn and prevent similar collapses in the future.

One of the more contentious policies to surface over the past week is a subscribed end to blind bidding.

As the country moves to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles, questions are brewing among people living in multi-unit dwellings.

How would this scenario unfold in Ontario? Leaving aside the construction process itself, there are vast differences between Ontario and Florida condominium laws that would have given the Champlain towers significant added protections following registration.

Ontario is kicking the dust off of elevator repair legislation, which was passed under the Liberal government in May 2018 but never proclaimed into law.

Women developers, architects and interior designers are helping to manifest just a few of the country’s most dynamic condos and communities.

A recycled title adorns the Ontario government's latest initiative to be framed as red tape reduction. Bill 213, the Better for People, Smarter for Business Act, 2020, is an omnibus effort to amend more than two dozen statutes.

While many condos haven’t yet experienced the major effects of climate change, statistics and case studies foreshadow the impacts that could come.

The timing might have been opportune for uptake of the measure — provided it was adopted into provincial and territorial building codes — because it would have applied broadly in what is currently Canada’s most buoyant commercial real estate sector.

Ontario has taken legislative steps to ensure that municipal councils do not need to worry about decision timelines under the Planning Act during the COVID-19-related state of emergency.

A package of proposed changes to Canada's National Building Code aims to improve navigability and safety in large buildings for people with mobility, vision and/or hearing constraints.

The explosive growth of online short-term rental websites has caused considerable controversy and concerns for condominium corporations

The 2019 Ontario budget lists the Building Code Conservation Advisory Council among 10 provincial agencies deemed to be unnecessary or imprudent expenditures.

After first postponing the date the legacy legislation from its predecessor would come into force, the provincial government now plans to repeal the New Home Warranty Act.

The new policy would give developers a basis to challenge any local government's veto of non-employment land uses in suburban office parks.

Construction site security is under renewed scrutiny after a member of the public gained access to a downtown property and scaled a crane.

How might Ontario’s development landscape shift as the PCs take over the provincial policy levers from a 15-year-old Liberal government?