INSIGHT: Real Estate Investors Need to Prepare for Climate Change Before It’s Too Late
The impacts of climate change, including rising seas and extreme weather events, are quickly emerging...
Insurers Paid $160 Million for Climate Change Floods in Canada
Insurers paid close to C$208 million ($160 million) for damage to homes, buildings and vehicles hit by flooding...
Commercial Real Estate and the Big-Data Deluge
Awash in granular digital information, companies are diving headfirst into high-tech solutions so they can make more deeply informed business decisions.
Property Condition Due Diligence Considerations for High-Risk Equity Transactions
Long-term real estate asset holds generally involve some level of change, improvement or repositioning to maximize returns on investment.
Oil and gas leaders respond to Bill C-69 setback, ‘disrespectful’ McKenna comments
The head of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers criticized the country's environment minister Thursday for comments he said shows she is “disrespectful” of the energy industry.
The Senate not done with Bill C-69
In a lengthy (2,600-word) motion tabled June 12, 2019, Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna served notice that the federal government would accept some of the 180+ Senate amendments to the new impact assessment Bill C-69
Liberals reject most Tory amendments to environmental assessment bill
The federal government is rejecting most of the amendments proposed by Conservative senators to Bill C-69.
Oil woes have Calgary landlords turning empty offices into apartments
When the lease on an Alberta Health Services office in Calgary came due for renegotiation two years ago, the rental market was so bad that trying to keep the tenants wasn’t worth it.
In April 2018, the NDP government of British Columbia introduced Bill 15: Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Statutes Amendment Act, 2018, which, among other things...
Ontario’s Proposed Excess Soil Regulations: Effects & Benefits
Where do the soils excavated from our basements go? Our backyards, neighbors’ backyards or into our drinking water?