The US$125 million settlement fund and the 9 January 2020 claims deadline are confirmed on the official settlement website, and the claims period is closed. But no Health Canada recall, no TSSA or ESA publication and no Ontario guidance could be located — and the installation-year range everyone quotes is not on any primary source.
The Electrical Safety Authority states that the Code permits aluminum wiring, and that existing concealed knob-and-tube may remain in place if it is on 15 amp protection, not overloaded and undamaged. What the ESA actually publishes on each, the Certificate of Acceptance process, and why the insurance question is separate from the legal one.
Canada’s 2018 asbestos ban expressly excludes asbestos already integrated into a building — it is a market ban, not a removal order. Health Canada says undisturbed vermiculite sealed off from living space shows no evidence of risk. And Ontario’s O. Reg. 278/05 exempts owner-occupied homes but binds every contractor you hire.
Health Canada requires a minimum 91-day test during the heating season and states that short-term measurements are not appropriate for informing mitigation decisions — which is most tests done in a conditional period. The 200 Bq/m3 guideline, the published Toronto and Peel figures with their sample sizes, and how to handle radon in a transaction.
The Home Inspection Act, 2017 carries an e-Laws note that it is not yet in force, has been amended three times while unproclaimed, and has no regulations at all. What that means for buyers, what the province says an inspection is and is not, typical fees, and the five things an inspection structurally cannot tell you.
The word customer appears zero times in TRESA and zero times in the current Code of Ethics. Since 1 December 2023 you are a client or a self-represented party, and the model inverted — the old customer got reduced service, a self-represented party gets none. What assistance means, the form the registrar requires before it, and the duties you are still owed either way.
How deposits are held under the Trust in Real Estate Services Act: the five business day rule and why Saturday is named but Sunday is not, who owns the interest, why no brokerage, broker of record, registrar or discipline committee has any power to decide entitlement to a disputed deposit, and the two-year provisions that move unresolved money out of the trust account.
What actually happens to a complaint about an Ontario real estate agent: the two-year limitation in the regulation that ends most of them, the difference between discipline and prosecution, the $50,000 and $100,000 fine maximums, why a Code of Ethics breach cannot be prosecuted, the move of appeals to the Licence Appeal Tribunal, and the administrative penalty power that is still unproclaimed.
What the Trust in Real Estate Services Act and its regulations actually require in a buyer or seller representation agreement — and the three things people believe that are not in the legislation at all. Mandatory contents, the reduce-to-writing deadlines, why termination terms can lawfully be absent, and the two indirect constraints that do exist.
The number of competing offers is mandatory disclosure to every bidder; the substance is only shared if the seller directs it; and the identity of a bidder may never be disclosed at all. How the open offer process actually works, the registrar inquiry route, the one-year retention rule on unsuccessful offers, and the rule that your offer must be presented whatever the commission.
