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April 10, 2026
7 min read
Canada welcomes hundreds of thousands of newcomers every year, and Ontario — particularly Mississauga and the broader GTA — is one of the most common places they choose to build...
Legal Services
Read articleApril 3, 2026
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A statutory declaration is one of those legal documents that sounds formal and unfamiliar — until you suddenly need one. At that point, people typically discover that they need it...
Notary and Ancillary Legal Services
Read articleMarch 27, 2026
6 min read
Losing a parent or a loved one is painful. Discovering that their will does not reflect what you believed they intended — or what you were led to expect — can turn grief into...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleMarch 20, 2026
5 min read
Before your mortgage lawyer prepares a single document, before a single dollar is advanced, and before title is searched, your lender sends you a commitment letter. Most borrowers...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleMarch 13, 2026
6 min read
For most Ontario business owners, the most valuable thing they own is their business. It represents decades of effort, accumulated relationships, and financial capital that dwarfs...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleMarch 6, 2026
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Ontario's Construction Act — the statute governing liens, holdbacks, payment disputes, and adjudication in the construction industry — has been through significant amendment...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleFebruary 27, 2026
6 min read
Most home buyers spend weeks agonizing over the purchase price. They negotiate hard, compare comparables, and fight for every dollar. Then, on closing day, they receive a document...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleFebruary 20, 2026
5 min read
It might seem like a stretch to connect U.S. trade policy to the decision whether to buy a house in Mississauga. It is not. Ontario's economy, and the real estate market that...
Legal Services
Read articleFebruary 13, 2026
5 min read
In January 2024, Canada joined the Hague Apostille Convention — a multilateral treaty that simplifies the authentication of documents for international use. For Ontario residents...
Notary and Ancillary Legal Services
Read articleFebruary 6, 2026
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When a person with wealth dies and leaves it directly to their beneficiaries, simplicity is achieved at a cost. The beneficiary who receives a large sum may be too young to manage...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleJanuary 30, 2026
5 min read
Private mortgage lending in Ontario can be a sound investment strategy — but only if lenders understand and respect the legal deadlines that govern their right to enforce. A...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleJanuary 23, 2026
6 min read
Buying a franchise is often described as a way to go into business for yourself without going into business by yourself. The franchise model offers a proven brand, an established...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleJanuary 16, 2026
6 min read
When a commercial property is held inside a corporation — which is common for investment properties, development land, and income-producing commercial real estate — buyers and...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleJanuary 9, 2026
6 min read
The assignment market in Ontario is one of the more misunderstood corners of real estate law. An assignment allows a buyer — the original purchaser of a property under an...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleJanuary 2, 2026
5 min read
If you have worked with an Ontario real estate or corporate lawyer recently, you may have been asked questions you were not expecting: Where does this money come from? Can you...
Legal Services
Read articleDecember 26, 2025
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Few things frustrate Ontario residents more than being sent to get a document 'notarized' only to discover — after waiting in line — that what they actually needed was a...
Notary and Ancillary Legal Services
Read articleDecember 19, 2025
5 min read
How real estate passes after a person's death in Ontario is not a single-answer question. The answer depends entirely on how title to the property was held at the time of death....
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleDecember 12, 2025
5 min read
You have found your next home and your offer was accepted. There is just one problem: your closing date for the new purchase is two weeks before the closing date on your existing...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleDecember 5, 2025
6 min read
The most expensive legal document for a private corporation is often not the one it has — it is the one it never got around to drafting. A shareholders' agreement is the...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleNovember 28, 2025
5 min read
When the province of Ontario committed to the largest expansion of transit infrastructure in its history — spanning new subway lines, LRT extensions, and GO rail electrification —...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleNovember 21, 2025
6 min read
Buying a condominium in Ontario is fundamentally different from buying a detached home — not in the emotional experience, but in the legal and financial complexity hiding behind...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleNovember 14, 2025
5 min read
A generation ago, an estate lawyer might help a client plan for the disposition of a home, a cottage, a bank account, and a collection of furniture. Today, that same client might...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleNovember 7, 2025
5 min read
Second mortgages occupy a fascinating and often misunderstood corner of Ontario mortgage law. For homeowners seeking additional financing, and for investors who provide it, the...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleOctober 31, 2025
5 min read
For decades, one of Canada's most peculiar economic ironies has been that trade between its own provinces is, in some ways, more regulated than trade with foreign countries....
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleOctober 24, 2025
6 min read
Commercial leases have expiry dates for a reason. When the term ends, so — in theory — do the tenant's rights to occupy the space. In practice, however, commercial tenancies...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleOctober 17, 2025
6 min read
Nearly every Ontario home buyer purchases title insurance as part of their closing package. Your real estate lawyer arranges it. The premium appears on your statement of...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleOctober 10, 2025
6 min read
Being named as executor in someone's will is an honour that comes with significant legal responsibility. Many people accept the role without fully understanding what it involves —...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleOctober 3, 2025
6 min read
When a mortgage goes into default in Ontario, most people assume the lender will simply 'take the house.' The reality is more nuanced — and for both lenders and borrowers,...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleSeptember 26, 2025
6 min read
Small business owners in Ontario sign dozens of commercial agreements every year — lease agreements, supplier contracts, employment agreements, and increasingly, software services...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleSeptember 19, 2025
6 min read
The idea that the government can take your property — whether you want to sell or not — sits uneasily with most property owners. But expropriation is a real legal tool, and in...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleSeptember 12, 2025
6 min read
When a real estate deal falls apart in Ontario, both sides generally want the same thing: a clean break. The buyer wants their deposit back. The seller wants to relist without...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleSeptember 5, 2025
6 min read
Blended families — households that include children from previous relationships alongside a current spouse or partner — represent a growing reality in Ontario. They also represent...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleAugust 29, 2025
6 min read
For most homeowners, refinancing a mortgage feels like a banking transaction — you fill out forms, the lender reviews your income and property, and new money appears. What most...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleAugust 22, 2025
6 min read
Few areas of Ontario business law generate more client confusion — and more litigation — than restrictive covenants. Non-compete clauses and non-solicitation clauses are...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleAugust 15, 2025
6 min read
Commercial real estate due diligence is not a checklist you complete once and file away. It is an investigative process — one that requires commercial real estate lawyers,...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleAugust 8, 2025
6 min read
Every first-time buyer in Ontario has heard about the rebates. Your mortgage broker mentioned them. Your parents told you they exist. But when it comes to the actual details —...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleAugust 1, 2025
5 min read
Most Ontarians know they should have a will. Far fewer understand that a will only takes effect when you die — and does nothing to protect you while you are alive but unable to...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleJuly 25, 2025
6 min read
Getting turned down for a bank mortgage is more common than most people think — and in Ontario's current lending environment, it happens to people who are not, by any reasonable...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleJuly 18, 2025
6 min read
Most small businesses in Ontario start the same way: a person with a skill or an idea begins working, and the legal structure follows — usually informally. A sole proprietorship...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleJuly 11, 2025
6 min read
A commercial lease is one of the most significant legal commitments a business can make. Unlike residential tenancies, commercial leases in Ontario are largely unregulated — the...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleJuly 4, 2025
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It is one of the most distressing phone calls a real estate lawyer receives. A buyer — sometimes days before closing, sometimes the morning of — calls to say they cannot close....
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleJune 27, 2025
5 min read
Ontario imposes an estate administration tax — commonly called a probate fee — on the value of assets that pass through the probate process. For most Ontario residents, this tax...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleJune 20, 2025
6 min read
In early 2026, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRA) completed the most comprehensive review of the Mortgage Brokerages, Lenders and Administrators Act...
Private Lending and Mortgage Law
Read articleJune 13, 2025
6 min read
Not every business sale is fully funded by bank financing. In many Ontario business and real estate transactions — particularly small business sales where the buyer's borrowing...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleJune 6, 2025
6 min read
Ontario's approach to land use planning has undergone a seismic shift over the past several years, and the trajectory continued through 2026. A series of legislative amendments to...
Commercial Real Estate Law
Read articleMay 30, 2025
6 min read
You have waited weeks — sometimes months — for this day. The movers are booked, the boxes are packed, and the keys are almost in your hand. Then you walk through the property one...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleMay 23, 2025
6 min read
There is a persistent and dangerous myth that wills are for the elderly, the wealthy, or the particularly morbid. The truth is that dying without a will — a condition lawyers call...
Wills, Estates and Succession Planning
Read articleMay 16, 2025
6 min read
Real estate law in Ontario changed more in the past two years than it did in the previous two decades. The Trust in Real Estate Services Act — known as TRESA — brought in a new...
Residential Real Estate Law
Read articleMay 9, 2025
6 min read
Buying a small business in Ontario through a share purchase is one of the most consequential financial decisions a person can make — and one of the most legally complex. Unlike...
Corporate and Business Law
Read articleMay 2, 2025
6 min read
The frenzy is over. After years of sleepless nights spent refreshing MLS listings and submitting unconditional offers above asking, Ontario's housing market has found a quieter...
Residential Real Estate Law
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