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Going into business with someone starts on a foundation of trust. Shared goals, shared effort, and often shared money. When that relationship breaks down and one partner is left owed a specific sum, the fallout can be both financially damaging and personally bitter. The good news for many Ontario business owners is that recovering money… Read More

March break, summer vacation, a grandparent’s trip with the grandkids, a school group heading across a border. Every year, thousands of Canadian children travel abroad without both parents, and every year some families are caught off guard at a border because they were missing one simple document. A travel consent letter is not something most… Read More

At first glance, a following too closely ticket looks like small change. The fine printed on it is modest compared to the eye-watering numbers attached to charges like stunt driving or no insurance. That modest fine is exactly what lulls drivers into simply paying it and moving on. It is a costly misread. Behind that… Read More

Most traffic tickets sting the wallet for a few hundred dollars. A no insurance charge is in an entirely different league. With a mandatory minimum fine that starts in the thousands and can climb into the tens of thousands, driving without insurance carries some of the harshest financial penalties in Ontario’s provincial offences system. Worse,… Read More

It sits right there in the lease, printed in plain language and signed by both parties: no pets allowed. Most tenants read that line and assume it settles the matter. Most landlords write it believing it gives them the power to demand a pet be removed. Both are working from a misunderstanding, because in Ontario… Read More