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It's that time of the year. We are finally about to welcome 2021 and 2020 has finally ended, even though for ages it seemed it never may. 2020 tested us all, some little more than others. At Dhillon Law, we were also thrown a curve ball by Mother Nature that we weren't prepared for. Since the pandemic arrived in March in Ontario, we have been in survival mode. We tried our best to accommodate our staff and our clients - two most important players in this game. I would not be here typing this message had it not been for your trust in us and the unwavering commitment by our team members. Big Thank You to You all. If we can survive this pandemic, we can surely do much better without it. Lets begin the new year with new spirit. Thanks You. Wishing You All A Wonderful 2021

Real estate investors are increasingly trying to get out of closing on their newly built condos in the Toronto region, as rents plummet and banks toughen borrowing qualifications for rental properties. A record 23,000 new condos units will be completed in the Toronto region this year, and another 22,434 are due next year, according to Urbanation. It estimates that 50 per cent were bought as rental units. Condo resales and their average selling price have increased over the pr...evious year. As well, preconstruction sales on condo projects are still robust. But the number of new condo listings and new rental-unit listings are rapidly increasing. If that persists, realtors predict selling prices will start to decline. https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-assignment-sales/

In fact, for condo owners, just about everything that could go wrong from bad construction and rising insurance costs, to rental rates that can’t cover mortgage payments is going wrong. Rents are falling in most Canadian major cities, pulling down the average asking rent by 8.1 per cent from a year ago. The number of condo apartments available for sale in Toronto jumped 155 per cent in October, from the same month a year earlier, to record highs. Sales fell 0.4 per cent. Condo sales were still up from a year earlier in Vancouver, by 13.4 per cent, but active listings jumped 53 per cent. This shift in supply and demand is by far the strongest sign a correction may be headed to the condo market.

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Many people have been scratching their heads lately trying to understand how it is that Canada’s average house price jumped more than 17 per cent during the worst economic crisis to hit the world in decades. On its face, it seems senseless. Overall, Canadian households received more money ($56 billion) from government aid programs such as CERB and other transfers in the second quarter than they lost in wages and salaries due to the pandemic ($23 billion), Royal Bank of Canada economist Robert Hogue wrote in a report this week. On net, household disposable income spiked 11 per cent in Canada. This substantially increased (home) buyers’ purchasing power.

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Sales of new condos were down 32% compared to a year earlier. The City of Toronto led the way, with a 46-per-cent drop in sales. Annual prices up but anecdotal evidence of 20% drop. Sales of detached homes up 44%

Parents were residents of Kuwait but of Jordanian origin. They separated. Mother travelled to Canada, without consent of the father, and claimed refugee status as she feared for her and children's safety. She cited a long history of domestic abuse. The question before the courts was if Ontario courts had jurisdiction over the matter. In Mother's absence, Father had obtained certain court orders. The presiding judge didn't believe Mother's testimony and declined to assume jurisdiction. The Court of Appeal over-turned judge's decision and allowed the Mother and Children to stay in Canada and pursue their refugee claim. Interesting read how two separate judges reached opposite decisions. That is modern Family Law. Essentially no one knows anything. http://canlii.ca/t/j8wnt

Should Rudy Giuliani be barred form practice of law for his attempts to over-turn a fair and legitimate election? Many thing so. People are emailing me saying... this is comical, and I’d say it would be comical if it weren’t so dangerous, Cummings told The Washington Post on Monday in reference to Giuliani’s actions on Trump’s behalf. We’re living through this moment where actions that should have consequences don’t seem to at least not in a way we would have predicted in the past and that erodes trust in the system. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D-N.J.) filed complaints on Friday in five states against Giuliani and 22 other lawyers working with the Trump campaign, calling for them to be stripped of their law licenses for filing frivolous lawsuits and allegedly engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation. Donald Trump has done great damage to this nation but he has always had helpers. These lawyers are enabling his treachery and harming our democracy, Pascrell told The Post through a spokesperson Monday. He called the campaign legal team’s effort to overturn election results with frivolous lawsuits "misconduct and an affront to the rule of law.

Toronto rental market is cooling off as rents drop as much as 16%. Is it a sign of coming cooling off in the real estate market? Things won't improve much as 20,000 new condos are expected to enter the market next year.

Toronto Condo market seems in for a shake up. And a big one. Data compiled by the Toronto Regional Real Estate Board in collaboration with Urbanation Inc. have found a 215% increase in listings for condominiums in Ontario's capital between September 2019 and September 2020. The growth in condo listings has far outpaced other housing unit listings, which as a whole have grown by 5.3% in the same period. The increase in the supply of condos being sold on the market has reduced... condo rental prices on average by 11% in the third quarter compared to the same period last year, the largest annual decline ever recorded in the city. The decline in rental prices in the downtown core have outpaced the rest of the city, declining by 14.5% since last September. And here is a real life story. A friend listed his condo in the west end for sale at $640,00 after others in the same building had sold for $650,000. After receiving no offers for a month, price was lowered to $600,000. Still no offers. Price was further lowered to $550,000. It has been on the market market for four months with not a single offer. No tenant either. It was rented for $2500/month. When tenants moved out, rent was lowered from $2500 to $2300 to $2100 over the same four month period but not a single query. A price drop of 15% in four month and still not sold. And a flood of new condos is scheduled to enter the market over the next year. Not that long ago we were told by the real estate market pundits that Toronto condo market has no limit and will match NY market prices. Realty has strange ways to catch up. Via Ranjit Singh

Frances Choy was 17 when she was arrested in 2003 and charged with pouring gasoline around her home in Brockton, Mass., and setting a fire that killed her paren...ts. After two trials ended in hung juries, she was convicted on murder and arson charges in 2011 and sentenced to life in prison without parole. But last month, a judge vacated the convictions after Ms. Choy’s lawyers uncovered numerous problems in her third trial, including evidence that Kenneth Choy, the 16-year-old grandson of Ms. Choy’s father, had set the fire and then blamed Ms. Choy. The judge, Linda E. Giles of Superior Court, also ruled that newly discovered emails had demonstrated the trial prosecutors’ racial animus against Frances and her family. The prosecutors exchanged numerous images of Asian people, some accompanied by pejorative comments, and some unexplained, Judge Giles wrote. They exchanged ‘jokes’ about Asian stereotypes, and mocking caricatures of Asians using imperfect English. https://www.nytimes.com//brockton-massachusetts-woman-free

Toronto is the only city considered in a Real Estate bubble in North America. https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-toronto-is-the-o/

Annulment of a marriage under the common law has a long and checkered history which has evolved rather slowly. A B.C. judge has brought the law into the 21st century.

When the political rhetoric meets the Rule of Law. And the Law of Land. Supreme Court judges push Ontario and Saskatchewan lawyers how the existential threat of... climate change could be met if Ottawa has no such jurisdiction. Justice Michael Moldaver said everybody as I understand it agrees that climate change is a serious threat to life on Earth as we know it, and that even if the provinces have the power to do something about it, they don’t have to. If one province decides not to do it, if one province decides to go rogue, this will have an impact potentially on the whole of Canada, and other provinces that are trying their best, said Moldaver. Sometimes constitutional law questions are not as complicated as lawyers tend to make. Law doesn't imply divorce from reality or common sense. Does it? #CarbonTax #ConstitutionalLaw #SupremeCourtofCanada See more

CHMC continues to predict a drop in house prices. 9% to 18% drop before prices rising again.

For the first time in Canada, a police officer has been convicted and sentenced to jail time for failing to provide medical help to a person in their custody. London police Constable Nicholas Doering was sentenced Monday to 12 months in jail, after a rare conviction in November of criminal negligence causing death and failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of Debralee Chrisjohn. Ms. Chrisjohn, a member of the Oneida Nation of the Thames, died in police custod...y of a heart attack brought on by methamphetamine use a medical emergency that was dismissed by Constable Doering, her arresting officer, as her just being high. https://www.theglobeandmail.com//article-in-rare-case-pol/

Here is a link to the complete judgement by Hon J Steeves, written over 880 pages consisting of 2943 paragraphs, 4 schedules and 109 end notes. Heavy reading for law student for years to come. Happy Weekend Reading! #CdnPoli #UniversalHealthCare #Law https://www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/20/13/2020BCSC1310.htm