Get up to speed on recent amendments to the Condominium Property Act and their impact on your day-to-day practice. This on-demand program was originally broadcast as a webinar on March 15, 2022. Total running time for each presentation ranges between 30 minutes to 1 hour. Each presentation in this program is available for individual purchase.

This paper focuses on risk mitigation in condominium development. It identifies areas of post-developer conflict in condominium corporations, discusses the current state of the law, and considers potential solutions to dealing with condominium development conflict. Topics discussed include recent amendments to the Condominium Property Act, developer bylaws, payment of fees on undeveloped or incomplete units, bareland condominiums, purchase money held in trust, and more. The paper includes, as appendices, a draft originating application and accompanying affidavit to have trust money paid into court. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s Real Property Law Essentials program in Edmonton on February 21, 2018 and in Calgary on February 27, 2018.  

Advising clients buying new condominiums in Alberta requires knowledge of current legislative schemes and their practical effects. This paper identifies those key legislative schemes and highlights un-proclaimed amendments.  There is particular focus on how changes to the Condominium Property Act, RSA 2000, c C-22 may affect the condominium warranty program. In addition, there are practice points that indicate how changes to the condominium warranty program may affect clients and how to best advise your clients. This paper is part of a collection presented at LESA’s 49th Annual Refresher: Real Estate program from April 24 – 26, 2016.

This paper examines the interplay between the Condominium Property Act and the New Home Buyer Protection Act. It identifies issues likely to be considered in the upcoming amendments to the Condominium Property Act and, finally, touches on some recent case law.

Intended for an audience already familiar with the basic procedure for obtaining a labour market opinion in Canada, this paper discusses the impact of changes that have already been implemented to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, as well as the anticipated effect of forthcoming changes. Specifically, the authors discuss the changes that become effective on the announcement of the reforms in April 2013 and then go on to discuss those that became effective on July 31, 2013. Finally, this paper analyzes the more onerous provisions, including the search and seizure, and investigation powers that will be available to government agencies under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Included are materials by Hugh Willis and Abbey Baier titled Quick Reference Materials for LMO Exemptions, Trade Exemptions and Work Without a Work Permit. This 26-page table represents a summary of some of the more common Work Permit exempt, LMO Exempt and trade categories (non-exhaustive). This paper was presented at the Immigration program in October 2013.

This paper discusses the standard of competence required of practitioners in the context of condominium conveyancing. It focuses on the most important documents to review in re-sale condominium transactions so that lawyers can better advise and protect their clients’ interests with particular focus on the requirements for the Reserve Funds of a condominium corporation. This paper was drawn from materials presented at the Condominiums program held in May 2012.