Ask Riskboss
Q & A: Straight Answers to Hard Asked Questions Recommendations and advice from your Risk experts. Question from Rose L., Property Manager in Toronto, Ontario Q: Our Board asked me to get our security company Read more
Editorial Commentary
By Samantha Wharton Riskboss Magazine Senior Editor We received a lot of responses and commentary from out last edition, especially about the ‘Tenants Behaving Badly in Condominiums’ article. Riskboss CEO Quintin Johnstone teamed up with Read more
The Elephant in the Room
Capacity – Impact & Influence By Quintin Johnstone, Founder & CEO of Samsonshield Inc. / Riskboss Inc. As described by Wikipedia, “Elephant in the Room” is an American English metaphorical idiom for an obvious problem Read more
Hand Signal for Help
Signal for Help What is it? What does it mean? By: Dawit Kiflu, Director of Operations, Samsonshield Inc. www.samsonshield.com If you see someone use the Hand Signal for Help, what does it mean? What should Read more
Legal Updates
The Notorious Nuisances – The Condominium Authority Tribunal Expands Jurisdiction By Tony Bui and An Nguyen, Gardiner, Miller, Arnold, LLP, www.gmalaw.ca Effective January 1, 2022, the Condominium Authority Tribunal (the “CAT”) recently started hearing disputes Read more
Toronto History
Early Black History in Toronto and the Arrival of Paul Robeson By Bruce Bell, Toronto Historian In late 1945 a nine-year-old Toronto boy named Harry Gairey went to the Icelandia roller-rink in the Spadina and Read more
A Tale of Two Kings
Why Toronto has the Highest Number of Condominiums in the World by Volume By: Quintin Johnstone, Founder & CEO Samsonshield Inc. / Riskboss Inc. 2020 marked a very important milestone for the City of Toronto. Read more
CPTED – What Is It? Does It Help Mitigate Risk?
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) By: Ken Shibasaki, Senior Analyst, Riskboss Inc. So, your Board comes to you as the property manager and asks, “Should we get a CPTED analysis of our community?” What Read more