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Tax, Legal & TRESA

税法与监管：HST、土地转让税、律师费、BRA、TRESA、RECO。 HST, Land Transfer Tax, lawyer fees, BRA, TRESA reform, RECO rules.

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Doing Your Own Electrical Work in Ontario: Who Is Allowed, and When ESA Must Know

Five claims about homeowner electrical work in Ontario, checked line by line against O. Reg. 570/05, the Electrical Safety Code and ESA guidance: who may do the work, whether small jobs need ESA, and what a buyer can check.

	      Oct 8, 2026	    

	      Tax, Legal & TRESA	    

Raccoons in the Attic: What Ontario Wildlife Law Lets a Homeowner Do, and Where It Stops

An animal-by-animal guide to Ontario’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act for homeowners: how O. Reg. 669/98 classifies raccoons, red and gray squirrels, chipmunks, flying squirrels, bats and skunks, and which den, release and carcass rules each category triggers under s.31.

	      Oct 8, 2026	    

	      Tax, Legal & TRESA	    

Your Dog Bit Someone on Your Property: What Ontario’s Dog Owners’ Liability Act Means for Homeowners and Tenants

A dog bite at your Ontario home, followed step by step: who the Dog Owners’ Liability Act treats as the owner, what the Ontario Court of Justice can order under s.4, how strict liability and the victim’s own fault shape a damages claim under s.2, and the two-year limitation clock.

	      Oct 7, 2026	    

	      Tax, Legal & TRESA	    

Selling the Cottage or Rental in Retirement: Will That One-Year Capital Gain Trigger the OAS Clawback or Cut Your GIS?

A retiree selling a cottage or rental: how the sale becomes income (half the gain, all of any recapture), then four income bands, from below the GIS ceiling to above the OAS maximum threshold, and which July-to-June period each one affects.

	      Oct 7, 2026	    

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Your Building’s Property Taxes Dropped — Does Your Rent Have to Drop Too? Ontario’s Automatic Rent-Reduction Rule

Ontario landlords: if your building’s municipal property tax falls more than 2.49%, RTA s.131 cuts the lawful rent automatically on December 31. Follow the calendar: exemption check, city notices, the s.132 variation deadline and the one-year clocks.

	      Oct 7, 2026	    

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The Ontario Senior Homeowners’ Property Tax Grant on a Calendar: From the December 31 Snapshot to the Payment

Ontario pays homeowners 64+ up to $500 a year toward property tax. Follow the calendar: what December 31 locks in, when ON-BEN is filed, when payment arrives, how far back you can claim.

	      Oct 6, 2026	    

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Selling With an MPAC Reconsideration or Appeal Still Open: Three Ledgers Decide Who Gets the Refund (or the Bill)

Selling an Ontario home while an MPAC Request for Reconsideration or ARB appeal is pending? See who the city refunds under Municipal Act s.341, who MPAC notifies, and why Form 100 clauses 18 and 19 leave the split to your contract.

	      Oct 6, 2026	    

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Ontario’s Trespass to Property Act for Homeowners: Three Beliefs About “No Trespassing” Signs, Checked Against the Statute

What a No Trespassing sign actually does under Ontario’s Trespass to Property Act: the two ways the s.2 offence is committed, why the $10,000 fine is not compensation (s.12 damages are), which land is protected with no sign at all, and what the 2025 amendments added.

	      Oct 5, 2026	    