Lecturing and speaking • The Neighbours Next Door Nasty, Neighbours: Noise and Nuisance OBA, December 5, 2006. • In Camera Meetings, When Are They Lawful OBA, CLE, June 6, 2006 • Boundaries: Where To Draw The Line, Nasty Neighbours III: Return Of The Feuding, OBA, June 10, 2004 • Impact of the Municipal Act, 2001, OBA, December 12, 2003 • Civil Litigation Update - Suits and the City, Carelton County Law Association, Montebello P.Q., November 28, 2003 • Operation Update, Municipal Law -OBA, October 3, 2003 • Love Thy Neighbour - Tips and Techniques for Balancing Individual and Community Rights: Creating Enforceable Municipal By-laws, Canadian Institute, October 2, 2003 • Municipal Act, 2001: Roads and Highways II, OBA, June 9, 2003 • Managing Your Obligations Under The Safe Drinking Water Act: Personal Liability for Directors and Officers of the Water System, The Canadian Institute, April 8, 2003 • Municipal Act, 2001: New Powers to Regulate Nuisance and Environmental Impacts, OBA Institute 2003, Environmental Law Program, March 21, 2003 • Counsel at Municipal Council: Municipal Freedom of Information, OBA Institute 2003, Municipal Law Program, March 20, 2003 • Fences: Neighbourhood Friends or Foes?, CBAO Continuing Legal Education, Nasty Neighbours II Program, May 2000 • Municipal Law Including Mega City, CBAO, Operation Update, September 1997 • Advising Clients on Municipal Legislative Changes, Article in CBAO's Briefly Speaking, August 1997 • Land Use Planning and Protection Act, 1996 (Bill 20) An Overview, Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Legal Education and Canadian Bar Association - Ontario, Joint Program entitled "Bills 20 & 26 'Common Sense' and Sensibility", June 1996 • Changes to the Planning Act: A Legal Perspective, Ontario Association of Committees of Adjustment and Consent Authorities, Workshop, March 1996 • Appeals Under the Building Code Act, A Review of the Statutory and Case Law since 1988, Canadian Bar Association - Ontario, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, January 1996 • Collecting and Refunding Municipal Taxes, Law Society of Upper Canada, Continuing Legal Education, also Chair of the Program which was entitled "Municipalities and Money", May 1994 • Building Code Act - Recent Amendments, Canadian Bar Association - Ontario, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, January 1994 • Case Summary on Loblaws and Fortino's Supermarket Limited v. Ancaster (Town), Article in Municipal World, 1993 • Establishing the Amount of Municipal Building Permit Fees, Cost Recovery or Revenue Production, Article in Municipal World, 1993 • Do Fences Make Good Neighbours?, The Canadian Bar Association - Ontario, 1992 Institute, January 1992 • The Municipal Perspective on Water Issues - Beyond 'Hot Water', The Canadian Bar Association - Ontario, Continuing Legal Education, February 1991 • Bill 103 - The New Ontario Building Code Act, The Law Society of Upper Canada, Municipal Law Update, October 1990 • Municipal Law, The Law Society of Upper Canada, 1990 • Legal Concerns of the Public Health Inspection, The District, Municipal and Regional Solicitors' Association, The Association of Local Official Health Agencies, December 1988 • Real Estate and Municipal Law, Getting Your Building Permit under Section 15 of the Ontario Building Code Act, The Canadian Institute, November 1988 • The Planning Act, 1983, Five Years Later, Subdivision Process - An Overview, Canadian Bar Association, Continuing Legal Education, October 1988 • How to Attack Municipal By-laws in Court and How to Take a Municipality to Court When You Don't Get Your Building Permit, Law Society of Upper Canada, April 1988 • The Planning Act, 1983 - Nearly Five Years Later, Canadian Bar Association 1988 Institute on Continuing Legal Education, February 1988 • Bill 20 Provisions Affecting Appeal Procedures, Insight Seminar, February 1996 • Regulations and By-laws Real Laws in the Real World, Co-Chair, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice Seminar, November 1995 • OMB Practice - Non-Hearing Dispute Resolution, Insight Seminar, June 1995 • Bill 163 the Planning and Municipal Statute Law Amendment Act, 1994, Municipal Electric Association, Legal Matters Seminar, December 1994 • Planning and Development Reform in Ontario, Insight Seminar, September 1993 • Advanced Unit Municipal Law A.M.C.T.O. Course, Mohawk College, 1989, 1991 and 1992 • Administrative Law Program, The Law Society of Upper Canada, 1988 • 1988 Institute on Continuing Legal Education, Canadian Bar Association • Municipal Electric Association Seminars • Property Standards Officers Association Annual Meetings, 1983 - 1985 • Enforcement of Municipal By-laws, Seneca College • Drafting Municipal by-laws, Seneca College • Business Law Course, Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 1973 - 1974

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