Housing shortage drives up prices 14 per cent.
Homeowners cash in on high market prices
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Month: March 2001
New cigarette warning labels not a pretty sight
With photos of rotting teeth and cancerous lungs, the new graphic warnings on cigarette packs are causing headaches for some local smoke shop owners and translating into profits for others.
Act that’s supposed to protect tenants carelessly crafted
An old, wry adage advises that we should never attribute to malice what can be explained by carelessness. Applying that wisdom to Ontario’s Tenant Protection Act suggests its designers were very careless indeed.
Mediators try to take venom out of rental disputes
People always win when they talk out their problems, says Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal mediator Walter Williams. And he wishes more cases seen by the tribunal would go to mediation.