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By Brian Parker, Partner at Daoust Vukovich[1] This paper accompanies a workshop of the same name, held on Thursday, May 1, 2025, at the ICSC+ Canadian Law Conference in Toronto, Ontario. Clic...
It is a given that during the life-cycle of a lease, commercial landlords and tenants can expect at least one of the parties to undertake some type of renovation. They will consult their lease terms to evaluate their rights, but they must also navigation through the tangled web of the Building Code Act, 1992 ("Building Code"). In light of recent amendments to the Building Code, landlords and tenants should be aware of whether a particular renovation they are considering should trigger new accessibility requirements.
Read the full article: Accessing Accessibility Under the Building Code, The AODA and the OHRC.
In a prior News ReLease (Are Exclusive Covenants About to Become Extinct?, from November 29, 2023), we discussed the Competition Bureau’s Ret...
The insolvency of the Hudson’s Bay Company (“HBC”), Canada’s oldest corporation and iconic department store, is the most re...
In our February 8, 2024, News ReLease, we reported on The Canada Life Assurance Company et al. v Aphria Inc. (“Aphria”). In that case, the tenant wanted out of its lease and purported to “repudiate”, in an attempt to force the landlord to take the (office) space to market. The landlord took the position that it had no obligation to accept the tenant’s repudiation or look for a replacement tenant, and that the tenant was required to pay rent over the balance of the term.
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