Is landscaping or fixing a driveway at my rental property a current or capital expense?

It depends on the scope of what you did, using the same repair-versus-improvement lens CRA applies elsewhere. Routine landscaping upkeep - mowing, trimming, patching a section of driveway, or filling cracks - generally counts as a current expense, since it maintains the property in the condition it was already in rather than making it better than before.

Larger work is more likely to be capital: repaving an entire driveway, regrading the yard, or adding new landscaping features like retaining walls or a new paved area that didn't exist before provides a lasting benefit and goes beyond simple upkeep. A full driveway replacement, in particular, tends to be treated like other whole-asset replacements - even if the old one was cracked and needed it, replacing it outright is usually capital rather than a repair. As with other rental expenses, the safest approach is to keep clear records distinguishing routine, recurring maintenance from one-off larger projects, since CRA looks at both the nature of the specific work and whether it was part of something bigger when deciding which category it falls into.