Health & Safety
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Ontario acts on washroom cleaning schedules
Designated Ontario employers would be required to report the frequency of cleaning in staff washrooms under proposed new occupational health and safety legislation.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Ad hoc venues trigger risk management headaches
Public gatherings in informal, unlicensed venues are creating risk management headaches for local officials in large and small Ontario communities.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Landlords tapped to act on lead water pipes
A Toronto Councillor is calling for more due diligence and disclosure around legacy lead water pipes through proposed new obligations for owners of small multifamily buildings built prior to 1950.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
New biocide regulations consolidate oversight
Canada’s new biocide regulations will consolidate oversight of a range of surface sanitizers that are currently governed through differing regulatory channels, sometimes requiring redundant authorization processes.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
Clean washrooms tapped to be employers’ duty
Proposed amendments to Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act would make employers responsible for the cleaning regimen in workplace washrooms.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Airport wildlife hazards prompt pond prohibition
Proposed updates to the Vancouver International Airport zoning regulations include a pond prohibition and building height restrictions in two areas where a future new runway could be located.
Canadian Property Management
Social destabilization unsettles city fabric
Data, collaborative networks and a suite of tested best practices can be valuable resources for property managers pressed to respond to the unsettling social destabilization occurring in many Canadian cities.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Newfoundland’s Furey tackles smoking and vaping
Smoking and vaping to be banned at all of Newfoundland and Labrador's government property, including buildings and associated outdoor space, parking lots and the provincial fleet of vehicles.
Construction Business
Prison time for supervisor in NB jobsite death
A New Brunswick construction supervisor has been sentenced to three years in prison for criminal negligence after the jobsite death of an 18-year-old member of his work crew.
REMI Network
Vancouver fire incidents surpass historic record
The City of Vancouver has experienced more fire incidents in the first half of 2023 than any other time in history during this same period.
Facility Cleaning & Maintenance
New groundskeeping specifications for fed lands
Groundskeeping specifications for federal properties are set to change under a new policy disallowing pesticide application for cosmetic purposes.
Canadian Property Management
Slip-and-fall injury bill stranded in Manitoba
Manitoba's legislative term expired soon after the government introduced proposed amendments to the Occupiers' Liability Act similar to changes already adopted in Ontario.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
HVAC-related infection controls considered
A first-ever ASHRAE standard for mitigating the airborne spread of infectious pathogens in indoor spaces has been released for public review.
Canadian Property Management
Lax fire safety oversight flagged in NS audit
Nova Scotia's Auditor General raises a long list of concerns about the Office of the Fire Marshal 12 years after a previous Auditor General presented similar findings.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Manitoba MLA advocates new lease-breaking option
A recent private member's bill proposes an expanded definition of the types of violence tenants might face that would necessitate the need to relocate.
Canadian Apartment Magazine
Cooling deemed key amenity for Ontario renters
Conceptually, the proposed rules establish air conditioning as a protected option that tenants cannot be prevented from obtaining rather than an essential that landlords would be compelled to supply.
Canadian Property Management
Dim future for fluorescents and metal halides
Fluorescents and metal halides will be further marginalized in the lighting market with pending amendments to Canada’s regulations governing products containing mercury.
