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Recent Articles:

Article:  HST Issues for Builders (HTM)

Rent Control Bulletin:  Stocking-Stuffers...And A Lump Of Coal!...From The Courts (PDF)

Article:  E-Update - Cell phone use banned - Starts in October (PDF)

Employment Law Update dated September, 2009 - Volume 3 (PDF)

2009 OBA Excelling at Articles Conference Paper: Managing Client Expectations (PDF)

AgriLaw Article: Get Ready for Green (HTML)

AgriLaw Article: Health Impacts - Legal Rights (HTML)

Article: Defending your case at the ORHT (HTML)

Article: Don’t Get Caught With Your Pants Down! (PDF)

Article: Indian Residential School Settlement: A Model for Settlement? (HTML)

General Article: Making Your Will - Lawyer or Will Kit? (HTML)

Bankruptcy & Insolvency Articles:

Understanding Bankruptcy (HTML)

Understanding Bankruptcy - Maximizing Recovery (HTML)

Class Actions:

How a Class Action Works (HTML)

Commercial Leasing Newsletters:

How and Why Rents are Held in Trust by a Landlord for Construction Contracts - Commercial Leasing Newsletter (PDF)

A commercial Landlord's Right of Distraint - Some Practical Considerations (PDF)

What are a Commercial Landlord's Legal Remedies when a Tenant Fails to Pay Rent? (HTML)

Energy Regulation Articles:

Railways and Pipelines - Increased Compensation (HTML)

Pipeline Coming? What to Do? (HTML)

Food Liability (HTML)

Surface Facilities - Loss of Use Compensation (HTML)

Oil and Gas Compensation - Can I Get More? (HTML)

Pipelines - Unity Brings Success (HTML)

Oil and Gas Facilities - What Compensation? (HTML)

Power Blackout – Do You Have Insurance? (HTML)

Gas Storage Compensation - A New Approach (HTML)

Limiting Damage Should be Goal of Owners (HTML)

Co-operation Between Landowners Brings Pipeline Power (HTML)

Pipelines - Listening to Landowners (HTML)

Pipeline Repair - A New Solution for Old Problems (HTML)

Gas Leases - Ask Before Signing (HTML)

Environmental Regulation Articles:

Get Ready for Green (HTML)

Health Impacts - Legal Rights (HTML)

When is Noise a "Contaminant" (HTML)

Golf Ball Nuisance (HTML)

Access Rights by Acquiescence (HTML)

Expropriation Compensation - What is Fair? (HTML)

Nuisance Relief - Do it Now (HTML)

A Right to Clean Water (HTML)

Pesticide Liability (HTML)

Access Roads – Who Has Priority? (HTML)

Fisheries Act Liability - Any Water, Any Substance (HTML)

Water Restrictions - How and When (HTML)

Environmental Liability - New Protection (HTML)

Municipal Controls on Pesticide Use (HTML)

Landfill Expansion – The Public Interest (HTML)

Challenging Permits - Is There Significant Harm (HTML)

Building Permit no Guarantee (HTML)

Contaminant Discharge - What is Due Dilligence (HTML)

Competing Land Use - Environmental Standard (HTML)

The Risk of "Knowledge and Belief" (HTML)

Post-purchase contamination - Who Pays (HTML)

Manure Risk Management (HTML)

Lessons from Walkerton - Regulating Manure Risks (HTML)

Environmental liabilty - when is water quality impaired? (HTML)

Compensating Landfill Neighbours (HTML)

Family Law Articles:

Protecting your Custodial Rights (HTML)

Farm Regulation Articles:

Equitable Access (HTML)

Captive Wildlife - "Hunting" or "Harvesting" (HTML)

Compensation for Regulatory Negligence (HTML)

Access Road and Closure (HTML)

Insecticides - Buyer Beware ! (HTML)

Access Road and Closure (HTML)

Restricting Normal Farm Practice - MDS (HTML)

Regulating Manure - Absurd ? (HTML)

Trucks vs. Cows - Who is Liable? (HTML)

Livestock Destruction - Whose Risk? (HTML)

BSE - Who Pays? (HTML)

Chickens - No Export Without Quota (HTML)

MDS Violation Not “Normal Farm Practice” (HTML)

Intensive Livestock - Nutrient Management Requirements (HTML)

Misrepresenting the Farm (HTML)

Intensive Livestock – A Different Land Use

“Petroleum" Rights – Who owns what? (HTML)

Community Protection vs. Business Advantage (HTML)

I.L.O. Neighbours – Property Tax Relief (HTML)

Neighbour Impact Limits Nuisance Protection (HTML)

Normal, Not Nuisance (HTML)

The Family Farm - Who gets What ? (HTML)

Marketing Boards - Liability for Tenants (HTML)

A Farmer's Duty of Care(HTML)

Marketing Boards - Who Has the Power to Licence?(HTML)

Labour & Employment Articles:

E-Update - Cell phone use banned - Starts in October (PDF)

Employment Law Update dated September, 2009 - Volume 3 (PDF)

Employment Law Update dated June, 2009 - Volume 2 (PDF)

Employment Law Update dated March, 2009 - Volume 1 (PDF)

How you Fire is Important. (HTML)

Workplace Bullies: Ouch! (HTML)

Personal Injury Articles:

Laparoscopic Surgery (HTML)

Medical Malpractice Litigation. (HTML)

Causation in Tort Law - A Review of Athey v. Leonati. (HTML)

Omega and the ever Changing Face of Motor Vehicle Law. (HTML)

Rent Control Bulletins:

Stocking-Stuffers...And A Lump Of Coal!...From The Courts (PDF)

Property Tax reductions May Mean Rent Reductions! (PDF)
Ho...Ho...Huh??? (PDF)

Winning the War, Not Just the Battle! (PDF)

Here We Go....Again!!! (PDF)

Land Lease Communities Face New Rules, New Penalties Under New Tenancy Laws (PDF)

Rent Control Bulletin:  Winning the War, Not Just the Battle! (PDF)

Rent Control Bulletin:  Condo Landlord Responsible for Tenant Conduct (PDF)

Rent Control Bulletin:  Court Finds Property Manager Liable for Losses to Property Owner (PDF)

Rent Control Bulletin:  2006 Rent Control Guidelines (PDF)

Rent Control Bulletin - Land Lease Edition - Are You Running a "Trailer Park" or a Land Lease Community? (PDF)

"Reform" of Rent Control Laws Under Way (PDF)

Mobile Home Communities Will be Hard Hit by New Rent Control Laws (PDF)

Recent Oil Spill Highlights Importance of Proactive Preventive Measures by Owners of Mobile Home Parks (PDF)

Landlords Liable to Accommodate Disruptive Tenants with Disabilities (PDF)

Landlords May Be First Victims in Battle for Votes (PDF)

New Rent Abatement Law is Ominous For Landlords (PDF)

Recent Tribunal Decision Warrants Consideration of Mobile Home Water Testing Practices (PDF)

2002 Rent Increase Guideline (3.9%) is Cold Comfort for Landlords who Pay Heating Bills. (PDF)

Time Running Out for Optimum Pass-Through of Heating Cost Increases. (PDF)

Walkerton Legacy Leaves Mobile Home Communities Reeling. (HTML)

Heating Costs Got You Steamed ? A Summary Of Options For Recovering Increased Heating Costs. (HTML)

Property Owners Win Property Assessment Appeal. (HTML)

Survivor - Avoiding Elimination in an Increasingly Hostile Economic and Legislative Environment. (HTML)

Landlord Carrying Out Work on Adjoining Property not Liable for Abatement Under TPA. (HTML)

Tribunal Creates New Forms to Accommodate Tenant Application for Compensation. (HTML)

Landlord and Tenant Changes under the Tenant Protection Act: New Roles and Relationships. (HTML)

Rent Control Bulletin (Sept. 99). (HTML)

Rent Reductions Resulting from Property Tax Changes. (HTML)

Fair Municipal Finance Act Legislation. (HTML)

Recent Court Decisions of Interest to Landlords and Property Owners. (HTML)

Rent Abatement Decisions By Courts Expand Landlords' Financial Risk. (HTML)

Tenant Protection? A New Twist on the Consequences of Tenant Bankruptcy. (HTML)

Property Tax-Driven Rent Decrease Will Be Late Again. (HTML)

More Rent Control Changes. (HTML)

Rent Control Changes Require Strategic Thinking By Landlords. (HTML)

Wills and Estates Articles:

Making Your Will - Lawyer or Will Kit? (HTML)

Seminars

Angelo D'Ascanio Paper
Presented at the 2009 OBA Excelling at Articles Conference

Managing Client Expectations (PDF)

Angelo D'Ascanio Paper
Presented in connection with the OBA Young Lawyers Program

Taming your Butterflies - Dealing with Aggressive Counsel (PDF)

Joe Hoffer Paper

Human Rights and Tenant Rights (PDF)

Lindsay Lake Paper

Case Law Update - Cases from 2006 That Every Councillor and Administrator Should Know (PDF)

Joe Hoffer Paper

Planning for Planning Reform (PDF)

Ontario's Brave New World:

Municipal Challenges and Opportunities in 2006

Joe Hoffer Presentation

Legislation Update: What's New for 2006. (PDF)

 
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