Halsbury's Laws of Canada – Municipal and Planning, Special Edition

John Mascarin, M.A., LL.B., is a Partner with Aird & Berlis LLP in Toronto. Mr. Mascarin is a Certified Specialist in Municipal Law: Local Government and Land Use Planning and Development Law. He received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1989. He is the co-author of the Annotated Ontario Building Code Act (LexisNexis Canada), Ontario Municipal Act & Commentary (LexisNexis Canada), Annotated Land Development Agreements (Carswell), The Annotated Municipal Act, 2nd Edition (Carswell) and A Comprehensive Guide to the City of Toronto Act, 2006 (LexisNexis Canada). He has contributed the Municipal title for Halsbury's Laws of Canada. Mr. Mascarin is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School regularly teaching courses in the J.D. and LL.M. programs. He has written and spoken extensively on topics in the municipal, planning, development and real estate law areas. He is a Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Municipal Law Section. John is the recipient of the Bruce A. Noble Distinguished Municipal Lawyer Award (2022) from the International Municipal Lawyers Association and the Barnet Kussner Award of Excellence in Municipal Law (2023) from the Ontario Bar Association.

William A. Buholzer, B.A., M.A. (Planning), LL.B., is associate counsel in the law firm of Young, Anderson in Vancouver. His practice focuses on land use and planning law. Mr. Buholzer holds an M.A. in Community and Regional Planning from the University of British Columbia, and worked in the planning profession in Alberta and British Columbia before returning to U.B.C. for a law degree and being called to the B.C. bar in 1991.

A member of the Planning Institute of B.C. and the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners, he is extensively involved in professional development activities for planners, including frequent seminars sponsored by the Simon Fraser University City Program, where he is an Associate Member of Continuing Studies. Mr. Buholzer teaches planning law in the School of Community and Regional Planning at U.B.C. and the Master of Community Planning program at Vancouver Island University. He is the author of British Columbia Planning Law and Practice, a legal practice manual for planners published by LexisNexis Canada in 2001 and updated regularly, and Local Government: A British Columbia Legal Handbook, updated by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia in 2020, and is frequently invited to speak at CLE courses on local government law. He is a past chair of the Municipal Law Section of the B.C. Branch of the Canadian Bar Association and has served on the executive of the CBA's National Municipal Law Section.