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Dear friends, I want to share with you a very recent case from the Divisional Court — the court that hears appeals from the LTB. Briefly, the situation was as follows. The tenant paid rent with delays, often not in one payment but in several payments at different times, and she also underpaid part of the rent because she decided that if she had counterclaims against the landlord, she was entitled to withhold part of the rent (spoiler — she is not). At the LTB, the adjudicator

Dear friends, Our government has introduced yet another bill — Bill 60, the Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025 — put forward by Ontario’s ruling Progressive Conservative Party. I’ll focus only on the proposed changes to the Residential Tenancies Act (RTA) and share a few short comments from the perspective of a practicing paralegal. Section 43 RTA deals with how a notice to a tenant (a Notice of Termination) must look. Right now, the form must be approved by the Landl