I'll be taking a break from the blog today to spend the long weekend with my family. If you are lucky enough to have four days off I hope you take full advantage of them. Have a great one!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry...

From all of us to all of you, we wish you a very happy holiday season and all the best for 2012. I will be taking a break from the blog to spend time with my family, and will be back in the new year.

Rob Carrick, a columnist at the Globe and Mail, wrote an article yesterday called "20 things I don't understand about personal finance". It's a really neat slideshow of questions he can't answer. I am biased, of course - I particularly like his question about why all...

For my last post of the year, I thought I’d share a case that is making the rounds on legal blogs: Bruni v. Bruni, released last month out of the court in St. Catharines. It makes for entertaining reading. Happy holidays!

With the Americanization of much of Canadian culture, the term “attorney” has become synonymous with the term “lawyer” here. However, “attorney” in Canada does not in fact mean “lawyer”; instead, it means agent. If you have an attorney acting for you, such as under a...

I am a lawyer practising in Ontario with a focus on real estate and estates. I hope to use this blog to share interesting aspects of both real estate and estates law. I plan to post on interesting issues that are not as well-known as they should be and advice that has...