2012 Toronto Star Columns

When real estate agents prepare offers for a house with a
basement apartment, they typically insert a clause stating that “seller does not warrant retrofit status.”

Whenever a new subdivision is built, the subdivider is
required to enter into a development agreement with the municipality. Part of each agreement is a requirement for the developer to implement a city-approved
grading plan. The plan ensures that rainwater and snowmelt flow away from the
homes and into storm sewers.

It is not unusual for lawyers, as we advance through our careers, to assemble a short list of our heroes in the legal field – outstanding individuals who have earned our admiration for their achievements in the law

Bob Aaron bob@aaron.ca Frank and Dolores Lipischak are next-door neighbours to Diana DeWolf and Joe Russ on Caille Ave. in the town of Lakeshore in Essex County. Their homes front on Lake St. Clair and their deep lots back onto the municipal street. When the...

Whether or not Mitt Romney
becomes the 45^th president of the United States after the November
election, chances are that he and his siblings will still spend part of their
summers at the family cottage they still own inside
a tiny, gated community called Beach O’ Pines near Grand Bend, Ont.

Peel Condominium Corp. 108 is an attractive townhouse development built in 2002 on Central Park Dr. in Brampton. Back in April 2009, the board of directors became aware that Donna Young, one of the owners, had installed in her unit a tankless water heater that vents...