TORONTO — A backlog of cases at Ontario’s Landlord and Tenant Board has grown to 38,000 and it is taking an average of seven or eight months — sometimes up to two y…
While practitioners say delay and backlog are acute at the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), Tribunals Ontario has launched a new digital tool, in the hopes of increasing access to justice at the LTB. Announced July 2, Navigate Tribunals Ontario contai...
“Ontario is exploring the feasibility of arrangements with one or more registered consumer reporting agencies to facilitate access toLandlord and Tenant Boardorders where tenants have a history of missed payments,” the Ford government said in a statement. Currently, credit reporting agencies like Equi...
This qualitative focused ethnographic study was part of a larger mixed-methods research project conducted to evaluate the ‘Phase One Homes for Special Care in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. This evaluation examined the nature and experience of tenants of the CHO program (formerly called Homes for Spe...
Economic effects of COVID-19 restrictions have impacted commercial landlords and tenants, court said The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that while a force majeure clause had excused a landlord from performance of certain obligations under a lease contract due to re...
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Sriskanda, whose bio says he is a realtor and lawyer who advocates for “the rights of housing providers in Canada,” serves as a board member for Small Ownership Landlord of Ontario (SOLO) a group thatrecently hosted a pro-landlord protest asking for faster non-payment evictions. ...