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Condominium Manager Magazine

CM Magazine is the flagship quarterly publication of the Association of Condominium Managers of Ontario (ACMO) and for more than 30 years has served as the leading source of in-depth coverage of industry news, issues, information, education and best practices for condominium management professionals and service providers.

CM Magazine has a printed circulation of 7,000+ per issue and a digital circulation of approximately 400 views per issue.  The audience consists of Condominium Managers, Condominium Management Companies, Industry Services & Trades Providers, and Condominium Boards. 

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Summer 2025 Issue
SMART CONDOS
As condos adopt digital technologies, strong cybersecurity is vital to protect data and privacy. This theme explores how AI and automation enhance security, streamline maintenance, and personalize services. Discover ways to boost efficiency, safeguard digital records, and build safer, more connected communities.

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Court Empowers Condo Corporation to Enforce No Smoking Rule

Smart Condos

Your Condo || Mordy Mednick and Nicholas Tkach

Suppose you are a property manager or board member of a condominium corporation. A unit owner refuses to comply with its obligations under the Condominium Act, 1998, S.O. 1998 c. 19 (the “Act”). What are your options? This scenario came before the Ontario Court of Appeal in the recent decision of Halton Condominium Corporation No 61 v. Kolarovaliev, 2024 ONCA 848 (“Halton Condominium”), which involved a dispute between a resident and the condominium corporation over a no smoking rule.


Enhancing Building Maintenance Efficiency & Community Engagement Through Digital Automation

Smart Condos

Your Condo || Jessica Allen, George Al-Koura, Mohamed Jama, Shawn Ford

In today's technology-driven lifestyle, enhancing digital automation has become a priority for increasing efficiency and boosting resident engagement. Cutting-edge automation technology now allows the automation of multiple tasks, such as scheduling repairs, monitoring building systems and communications with residents. This timely, automated approach can result in faster response times and improved resident experience while lowering operational costs.


How AI is Helping to Save Lives in Condominiums

Smart Condos

Your Condo || Martin Andrews

When a cardiac emergency strikes, time is everything. A person can experience sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) without warning signs. Survival rates decrease by 7–10% for every minute that defibrillation is delayed for a person experiencing SCA. Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) have long been recognized as essential life-saving tools in public places, including residential buildings.


Protecting Condos Against Crime Modern Technologies & Legal Considerations

Smart Condos

Your Condo || Mehedi Mashud, Nasrudin Mumin

Condominiums today face security challenges such as theft, unauthorized access, property damage, and illegal activities — sometimes by owners, residents, or visitors. To address this, many condominium boards are adopting modern technologies that combine artificial intelligence ("AI"), cybersecurity, and real-time human response to create safer living environments. Three key technologies helping to prevent crime are intelligent smoke alarms, AI-powered CCTV cameras, and integrated video monitoring with a security response team.


The Place for AI & Technology in Condominium Management

Smart Condos

Your Condo || Stacey Kurck

With technology and the internet within reach at any given time, the expectations for the immediacy with which you can get information, answers to your questions, or even products delivered to your homes have drastically changed. And how that information is delivered has changed, too. People want an app for everything.


Why Condo Property Managers Must Lead Boards Beyond Just Financials When Choosing Vendors

Smart Condos

Your Condo || Lisa Ricci

As a condo property manager, your job involves juggling countless tasks — from daily operations to ensuring your building's community thrives. Yet, one of the most crucial responsibilities is helping the condo board make smart, long-term decisions that ensure the property's well-being. One of the most challenging areas often lies in vendor selection.


Prioritizing Mental Health in Condominium Emergency Preparedness

Keeping Condos Safe: Addressing Mental Health & Support

Your Condo || Jason Reid

Condominiums are more than just buildings. They are communities built on trust, security, and stability. Behind the scenes, a dedicated team of site staff, led by a licensed condominium manager, ensures that daily operations run smoothly, emergencies are prevented or managed effectively, and residents feel safe in their homes.


The Hidden Risks of Condo Board Membership: Why Security Should Be a Priority

Keeping Condos Safe: Addressing Mental Health & Support

Your Condo || Winston Stewart

Condominium boards are the backbone of residential communities. They juggle everything from budgets and bylaws to keeping the peace among neighbours, and while the role can be rewarding, it's far from risk-free. Board meetings, in particular, are often pressure cookers where tempers can boil over.


Elevating Safety: The Role of Technology in High-Rise Risk Management

Legal and Regulatory Updates in Condominium Management

Your Condo || Jason Reid

As urban living continues to rise, so does the importance of effective risk management in high-rise buildings. Across Ontario, condo boards led by innovative property management companies are leveraging technology to enhance safety and operational effectiveness. This article delves into their vision and their transformative impacts on safety, compliance, operations and, more importantly, documented evidence of their commitment to community safety. Let's look at a small sample of the key players leading the charge in the last 12 months – right here in Ontario...


When Property Managers Change Jobs: Who Keeps the Client?

Legal and Regulatory Updates in Condominium Management

Your Condo || Mordy Mednick

In the property management industry, where everything is intensely competitive, a critical question is whether or not a property manager is entitled to switch from one property management company to another and, at the same time, continue servicing the same condominium building with the property manager's new employer...


6 Things Boards Do That Make Managers Quit

The Manager Shortage

Your Condo || By Anthony Ing

We've all been there at some point, or heard the stories of a dysfunctional condo board. Whether it's unclear expectations, too many meetings, lack of leadership or toxic in-fighting, it's a situation no property manager wants to face. Regrettably, these scenarios are far too common and lead to manager burnout and turnover.


Understanding the Financial Risks of the Condominium Manager Shortage

The Manager Shortage

Your Condo || By Christina Ajith-Brandford, CPA, CA

For decades, urban and suburban centres across Ontario have been reshaped by sprouting towers and low-rise townhome residential units, many of them condominiums. The goal has been to accommodate a rapidly growing population with denser urban planning and construction, resulting in a surge of new condo residences. But what happens when there aren’t enough qualified property managers available to help management companies ensure the success of these communities?


Fire Safety: Alarming Trends & How You Can Be Prepared

Your Condo: Fire Safety

Your Condo || Michele Farley

Along with the rise in fatal residential home fires, in 2023, we have seen a 10% increase in fires in high-rise residential buildings. With our people and buildings at higher risk than ever since smoke alarms became mandatory, what changes can we expect?


The Crucial Role of Condo Security and Concierge Staff in Managing Emergencies and Mitigating Legal Situations

Your Condo: Security

Your Condo || Mike Fernandes

Condominium residential communities require efficient management and security measures to ensure the safety and well-being of their residents. In this regard, condo security guards and concierge staff play a vital role. This article delves into the training provided to these professionals, exploring how their expertise and preparedness enable them to effectively manage emergencies and mitigate legal situations in partnership with property managers and the board of directors.


The Hilarious Journey of Condo Refurbishment: Unraveling the Design-Build Enigma

Your Condo: Refurbishment

Your Condo || Rajmonda Cukaj

Condominium property managers and board directors face various challenges when selecting the perfect construction process and company for their common area refurbishment projects. With this article, I intend to take a lighthearted journey with you down the rabbit hole of condominium refurbishment.