Canada Condo, Strata & HOA News

Condo Smarts: Strata budget amounts can be changed only at AGM (BC)

A strata council terminated landscapers and bought equipment to undertake work on their own — and made changes to the…

10 months ago

BC Strata’s actions ‘unreasonable’ – ordered to pay condo owner

A BC Strata that ignored roughly more than a dozen handwritten requests from a condo owner has been ordered to…

10 months ago

New requirements for property managers starting THIS July (ON)

The Condominium Management Services Act (“CMSA”) was enacted in 2015. The Condo Management Regulatory Authority of Ontario (“CMRAO”), which derives…

10 months ago

Welland condo collapse: What’s happened since the start (ON)

Twenty months after ground was broken for a 226-unit luxury condo development alongside the Welland Recreational Canal, something went wrong…

10 months ago

Condo Smarts: The danger of restrictive bylaws (BC)

Q: Our strata corporation has a minimum of 30 days for any rentals. Otherwise, they will be deemed short-term rentals and…

10 months ago

Owner must pay Metro Vancouver strata $75K for e-cigarette fire (BC)

B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal has ordered the condo owners in an upscale Vancouver building to pay $75,873 for a fire…

10 months ago

Tobiano owners to form own association, threaten to withhold fees, as fight with developer expands (BC)

A group of Tobiano homeowners are looking to start up their own registered association in an effort to have a…

10 months ago

Regina condo owners down in the dumps over food and yard waste program (SK)

Last Wednesday, city council approved the bylaw amendments that will allow the program to get going. The city is expecting…

10 months ago

Growing calls to extend B.C.’s heat-pump rebates to condos to keep vulnerable residents cool

Two years after a deadly heat dome killed more than 600 people in British Columbia, efficient cooling devices remain out…

10 months ago

Condo Smarts: Restrictive bylaws don’t always pan out (BC)

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation has a set a minimum of 30 days for any rentals, otherwise they will be…

11 months ago