June 2017

Province to Launch Independent Review of the Construction Lien Act.

Michael Cochrane reviews two very different books about two very different leaders: Rob Ford and Roy McMurtry.

This brief article provides an update on the status of the Ontario Government's intention to allow agreements of purchase and sale for land to be executed by digital signatures, some of the challenges associated with doing so, and the role of various stakeholders in the process.

The title above is not a rhetorical question. Rather, this is a question that recently faced the Ontario Municipal Board in Dorsay Investments Limited and 1666500 Ontario Inc. v. City of Toronto (OMB Case No. PL070048), a case involving a proposed redesignation of lands designated for employment uses to allow a mixed-use development containing a substantial residential component.