O. Reg. 41/24 replaced thirty-six separate conservation authority regulations on 1 April 2024, deleted “pollution or the conservation of land” from the permit test, and cut TRCA’s wetland buffer from 120 metres to 30. The exemptions, the fees at TRCA and Credit Valley, the section 30.7 removal order, and the 2027 amalgamation that abolishes both authorities.
Section 27(16) of the Ontario Heritage Act gives municipalities until 1 January 2027 to designate legacy listings or remove them. Toronto says roughly 4,000 properties are affected. The difference between listed and designated, the nine criteria and the one-versus-two rule, the 60-day and 90-day and 120-day clocks, and the $60.00 search that finds what a title search cannot.
The phrase “mutual driveway” appears in no Ontario statute. The only government definition is in Toronto Municipal Code Chapter 918, and it points at a right of way. The width rules, why the front yard parking chapter does not reach Etobicoke, the 2026 fees, and the Planning Act provision that can make an informal split of the strip convey nothing at all.
Ten years under section 4 of the Real Property Limitations Act, extinguishment under section 15, and the bar in section 51(1) of the Land Titles Act. Why a fence dispute in Toronto turns on the date the parcel was converted, why Ontario has no encroachment statute at all, and the four statutory obstacles to a Land Titles Assurance Fund claim.
Section 51(1) of the Land Titles Act stopped new prescriptive rights the day your parcel converted. Section 44(1) preserved everything that had already matured. The twenty and forty year periods in section 31 of the Real Property Limitations Act, why a warning letter is not an interruption, why there is no such thing as a right to light, and why no Ontario statute extinguishes an easement for non-use.
An SRPR is defined in section 28 of O. Reg. 216/10 and excludes condominiums and townhouses. Title insurance is capped at a stated sum by section 139(1) of the Insurance Act. Ontario’s land surveyors say the two are “mutually exclusive products”. What each one does, what the LTCQ qualifier on your Toronto title means, and the $410 procedure that actually settles a boundary.
O. Reg. 143/24 amended the designation so that every single-tier and upper-tier Ontario municipality may pass a vacancy tax by-law. Toronto at 3%, Ottawa on a graduated 1% to 5% scale, Hamilton at 1% from 2025, and Peel paused since 2023. The declaration deadlines, the deemed-vacant rule, and what the City says about who declares on a sale.
Under section 15.2(4) of the Building Code Act a registered property standards order means a later purchaser is deemed to have been served with it. The 14-day appeal deadline, the deemed confirmation that follows missing it, the municipal lien with priority status, the $50,000 to $1,500,000 penalty ladder, and why Toronto has no online way to look an order up.
O. Reg. 169/03 sets Ontario’s enforceable lead standard at 0.010 mg/L; Health Canada’s maximum acceptable concentration, lowered in March 2019, is 0.005 mg/L. How to find out whether a Toronto house has a lead service line, who pays for which portion, the free testing and filter programmes, and the reason replacing only half the pipe can make things worse.
A permit is required before injuring or destroying any Toronto tree 30 centimetres or more in diameter at 1.4 metres. Section 813-29 provides a minimum fine of $500 and a maximum of $100,000 per tree, plus a separate $100,000 special fine. The permit fees, the two-year replanting condition, $583 cash in lieu, and why a mature tree can stop a garden suite.
