Michelle Ervin
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Enforcing Smoke-Free Ontario Act changes
The Smoke-Free Ontario Act and Toronto's smoking bylaws recently changed. A tobacco enforcement inspector shares what property owners and managers need to know.
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Barrie defers vote on condo garbage collection
Barrie City Council has passed its 2015 budget without funding for providing or rebating condo garbage collection, but could still start either this fall.
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Changes to Toronto sewers bylaw may be on tap
Toronto has two changes to its sewers bylaw coming down the pipes that, if adopted, may trickle down to building owners and managers.
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Working at heights standard takes effect in April
A new working at heights training standard aimed at preventing deaths and critical injuries in the Ontario construction sector takes effect April 1.
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Hullmark revives aging Liberty Village property
The more than 100-year-old brick building at 60 Atlantic Ave. was facing near-certain demolition when Hullmark Developments bought it. President Jeff Hull saw in the
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Inside U of T Mississauga’s Innovation Complex
To subsume or not to subsume. That was the question presented by the project brief for the expansion and renovation of University of Toronto Mississauga’s
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Barrie to debate garbage collection for condos
Barrie condo owners might soon get relief from “paying double” for garbage collection. City Council has agreed to cost into its 2015 budget either rebating
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Ontario aims to move new Condo Act this spring
The Ontario government is aiming to introduce a modernized Condo Act this spring, Minister of Government and Consumer Services David Orazietti said Friday in a phone interview.
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Airport cities among workplace trends for 2015
Airport cities, mindfulness programs and a phenomenon coined “rateocracy” are among the emerging forces shaping employees’ quality of life, according to Sodexo’s 2015 Workplace Trends
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Canary Park condos prepared for Pan Am Games
The Canary Park condos are nearly ready to be turned over to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games organizers for fit-up for the athletes, coaches
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How to find the right mix of workplace choice
The recent popularity of flexible spaces doesn’t mean traditional spaces should be abandoned altogether. Indeed, that there isn’t one perfect model for the workplace was
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Thompson Rivers University building gets boost
In its original concrete construction, completed in 1970, Thompson Rivers University’s Old Main Building reflected the design philosophy of its era. As Michael Leckman, a
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GTA housing market faces structural challenges
A weak diversity of housing choice, marked by the steady stream of ever-shrinking condo units, is one of three structural challenges facing the GTA housing
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Time management tips for busy professionals
Nine years ago, Susan Richardson was working as an executive with a heavy travel schedule and on the verge of burnout. Richardson decided something had
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Builders’ use of Toronto streets back on agenda
A motion that contemplates curbing builders’ use of city streets during construction is in the hands of Toronto’s deputy city manager for “consideration and appropriate action”
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Workplace ecology under the microscope
Ecology is a term often associated with natural environments and their corresponding animal kingdoms, but it applies equally well to employees and their relationship with
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A flurry of red-tagged emergency generators
When last winter’s ice storm walloped Toronto days before Christmas and knocked out power in parts of the city for upwards of a week, it
