News and Events

Welcome to our News and Events page where we hope to keep you up to date with all the latest happenings involving PHPIO. We also plan to keep an Archives page so you always have past information available at your fingertips. (Last updated November 23, 2009)

Letters from the President

• December 2008

The Latest News and Messages

• CBC Marketplace - Grow-Op Cover Ups - January 27, 2010
• Licensing Symposium Agenda - November 16, 2009
• Licensing Symposium Update - November 10, 2009
• Ottawa Licensing Symposium Announced - October 30, 2009
• CAN P-9 Compliance Announced - October 8, 2009
• PHPIO News - September 1, 2009
• Lawsuit deadline looms for homes insulated with Zonolite - August 23, 2009
• Licensing Symposium Agenda - August 5, 2009
• Licensing Symposium Update - July 30, 2009
• Details of the Licensing Symposium - July 25, 2009
• Home Inspector Licensing in Ontario -  July 7, 2009

• October 2009
• September 2009

Events

• PHPIO Tech Fair – Kingston – November 30^th, 2008

• Insurance Article - Home Inspectors Found Liable - August 2007
• How to Inspect your Home Inspector, by Mike Holmes - October 1, 2009
• Presence of asbestos kills home purchase - Aug 23, 2008

Older News

2009

• June
  • PHPIO News - June 15, 2009
  • PHPIO News - June 1, 2009
• May
  • Home Inspector Survey on the New Construction Inspection (NCI) Protocol - May 2009
  • Updates from the National Certification Authority - May 2009
• April
  • National Certification Authority Message - April 2009
  • NCA Application Fees Reduced - April 13, 2009
• March
  • PHPIO Announces CAHPI Equivalency - March 28, 2009
  • PHPIO Green Initiative - March 20, 2009
• February
  • Licensing of Home Inspectors - Feb 23, 2009

• CAHPI Acknowledgement – December 2^nd, 2008
• Testing the Testers – Ottawa Citizen –November 22^nd, 2008
• PHPIO Media Release – October 16^th, 2008

Have you got an article of interest that you would like to share with other members?
Whether it's the release of a new home component, a product recall or a technical review of some kind, we'd love to hear about it. If it's worthy of sharing, we'll gladly post it on our site.

Make your submissions to admin@phpio.ca preferably as a WORD document (.doc) or in .pdf format

A Picture… Says a Thousand Words!

As professional home inspectors, we've all witnessed the good, the bad and the ugly in residential housing. PHPIO is holding its first ever photo contest – eligible entries will be accepted from both PHPIO Candidates and Full Members alike.

Entry deadline for submissions is May 30^th, 2009. Send photos to admin@phpio.ca
Please reduce your photos to a maximum of a 4” x 6” image size with no more than 500 kilobytes – thanks.

A special PHPIO souvenir will be awarded to our contest winner!