How every tool is checked, and how often.

Official sources only

Every tool is built from the official consolidation of the legislation: bclaws.gov.bc.ca for British Columbia and ontario.ca e-Laws for Ontario. Not from a summary site, a blog post, another calculator or memory. Secondary summaries are never the source of an answer, even good ones, because they can fall out of date without saying so.

Every answer shows its section and a date

Each result names the sections it rests on and carries a Verified stamp with the date a person last read those sections against the official consolidation. The footer of every tool repeats this in full: the Act and sections relied on, the date last verified, and the date the consolidation it was read against is current to. You can follow the citation and check the work yourself rather than taking it on trust.

A check every Monday

Every Monday at 08:00 UTC, an automated watcher fetches the sources these tools depend on directly from the government publishers and compares each one with the copy it held the week before. It watches nineteen sources:

• Thirteen British Columbia texts: ten Parts of the Strata Property Act, the Strata Property Regulation, the Schedule of Standard Bylaws, and the day counting rules in the Interpretation Act.
• Two British Columbia consolidation dates, one for the Act and one for the Regulation, because they republish on different days.
• Four Ontario sources: the e-Laws currency date, and the official version lists for the Condominium Act, 1998, O. Reg. 48/01 and the Legislation Act, 2006.

The watcher only detects and reports. It never edits a page. What happens next depends on what it found.

Only a consolidation date moved

The publisher reissued the same text with a newer date. That is bookkeeping, so an update to the date printed in each tool footer is prepared automatically and goes live once it is approved. The Verified date does not move, because nobody has re-read anything.

The legal text changed, or a source could not be read

Nothing is updated automatically. The note under each Verified stamp changes to say a change was found and is under human review, and a person re-reads the affected sections on the official consolidation before any tool, or any Board Starter Pack content that depends on them, is touched. Only that re-reading moves a tool’s Verified date.

The line under every Verified stamp, “Sources checked automatically every Monday”, shows the date of the latest check and what it found. If a weekly check did not run, that date is not moved forward.

The public record

Every weekly check since monitoring began on 23 August 2026 is listed on the monitoring page, including the weeks nothing changed, along with the date each source was added. It makes no claim about the period before monitoring began.

Tests against the real pages

Automated tests drive the real, published pages in a browser run by a script: it enters dates, presses the button, and compares the answer with the one the cited section requires. The test cases target what breaks date arithmetic while looking fine most of the year: leap years, 28-day Februaries, the turn of the year, and both daylight saving changes.

Every case runs twice, once on a Vancouver clock and once on an Auckland clock, on opposite sides of the world and often on different calendar dates. A calculator that quietly depended on your time zone would fail. The tests do not cover every tool yet; they started with the deadline calculators, where day counting is easiest to get wrong. Any automatically prepared update is also checked, before it can be approved, for code errors that would stop a calculator from working.

Corrections

If you find an error, a stale date, or a section that has been amended since a page was verified, please tell me through the contact page. It goes to the front of the queue. The page is corrected and its Verified date is updated when it is.

Who does this

Know Your Strata is built and maintained by one person, Nour Attaallah: a data professional, not a lawyer. The about page explains who that is and why the site is run this way.

What verification does not cover

• It is general information, not legal advice. Using these tools creates no lawyer-client relationship. For anything contested, talk to a strata or condominium lawyer in your province.
• Your own documents can change the answer. The tools apply the legislation and, where relevant, the standard bylaws. Your corporation’s registered bylaws or declaration may vary the default, and nothing here can see them.
• A quiet week is not a legal opinion. An unchanged consolidation means the published text did not move. It does not mean an amendment has not been passed and is waiting to come into force, or that a court has not read an unchanged section in a new way.

British Columbia calculators · Ontario calculators · The monitoring record

Last updated 15 October 2026.