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Evicting a Commercial Tenant in Ontario

UPDATE - APRIL 27, 2021 In December 2020, Bill 229, Protect, Support and Recover from COVID-19 Act, 2020 came into effect, which amends the Commercial Tenancies Act (CTA) to reinstate a temporary ban on evictions in Ontario for certain eligible...

By Merovitz Potechin on Tuesday April 27, 2021.

Tags: Commercial Landlord and Tenancy, Commercial Lease, COVID-19, eviction, Landlord, Small business,

Landlord’s Right of Distress

While a landlord can exercise their right to seize the goods of a tenant, this right is not unlimited. Ontario courts have previously held that a landlord must choose between the mutually exclusive remedies of forfeiture or distress. This was...

By Merovitz Potechin on Monday July 14, 2014.

Tags: Commercial Landlord and Tenancy, Commercial Lease, eviction, Landlord, Tenant,