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This paper was authored by Brian Parker and Dylan Armstrong and accompanies a presentation of the same name given by Brian Parker on February 26, 2025, at the Eight-Minute Commercial Le...
With the expiration of Ontario’s Protecting Small Business Act, 2020 (the “PSBA”) on September 1, 2020, and the federal government’s September 17th announcement that the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (“CECRA”) program was extended for the month of September, the government of Ontario tabled the Helping Tenants and Small Businesses Act, 2020 (the “HTSBA”).
In this News ReLease we provide an update on the CECRA program, an overview of the HTSBA and outline the tenancies to which it applies.
Read the full article here: Ontario's New Helping Tenants and Small Businesses Act, 2020
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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