by admin | Mar 21, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Over the last 18 months, approximately 700 older homes in Ontario have been insulated with a product containing urea formaldehyde foam insulation, or UFFI. The problem is that the use of UFFI has been illegal in Canada since it was banned in...
by admin | Mar 14, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca As part of its green energy legislation, the McGuinty government is poised to shred the right to privacy that all citizens enjoy in their lawyer’s offices solicitor-client privilege. It is described in a 2001 decision of the Supreme Court...
by admin | Mar 7, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Imposing mandatory energy reports will further depress prices and sales volumes If it was the intention of the Ontario government to do as much damage as possible to the Toronto real estate market, then it has succeeded admirably in its goals....
by admin | Feb 28, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The Ontario Court of Appeal has written what may well be the final chapter in what I call The Case of the $100,000 Fence. The case involved a dispute over a strip of land between two houses on Johnston Ave. near Sheppard and Yonge in North...
by admin | Feb 24, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
CBC MARKETPLACE – NEW HOME NIGHTMARES – Wendy Mesley (with Mike Holmes and Bob Aaron)
by admin | Feb 21, 2009 | 2009 Toronto Star Columns, Toronto Star Property Law Columns
Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca The already battered real estate industry had reason for concern when Premier Dalton McGuinty said last month that “we owe it to ourselves to take a good, long hard look” at harmonizing the GST with the Ontario provincial sales tax....
