by Shaneka Shaw Taylor | Dec 22, 2020 | Featured, Legal Issues
If you have ever considered how the law deals with tenants in common who are parties to a co-ownership agreement, during a partition and sale of a property, look no further. The Ontario Superior Court of Justice recently addressed the issue in Krizans v. Skurdelis....
by Natalka Falcomer | Nov 5, 2020 | Featured
Ontario tenants breathed a collective sigh of relief when the moratorium on evictions via the Protecting Small Business Act in Ontario was extended to the Halloween weekend. Landlords, on the other hand, had no time to breathe as the act forced them to reverse their...
by Natalka Falcomer | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured
The recent changes to Ontario’s Residential Tenancies Act aimed to address the myriad of issues created by the fact that living in cities is just not affordable. But these changes didn’t address a solution many tenants have found to dealing with the unaffordability...
by Natalka Falcomer | May 21, 2020 | News
My experience during COVID-19 drew upon two “laws” I learned early in my law career: what’s legal isn’t always fair and contracts are as good as the parties who sign it. Why am I telling you this? Because COVID-19 showed me that, notwithstanding one’s legal rights,...
by Natalka Falcomer | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured
The retail industry is in a revolution. Store closures hit a record high of 7,600 and surprising bankruptcies ravaged the retail battlefield in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Once iconic brands died embarrassing deaths at the hands of hungry upstarts – upstarts that understood...
