While we watch the devastating floods in southern Alberta, we have our own flooding problems here in Ontario. In Bradford, millions of dollars of crops have been lost after a dike broke for the second time in three weeks. Farmers…
They don’t learn, they just don’t learn. On March 20th of this past week, MNR served Anthony Scissons, a sheep farmer from rural Ottawa, with a summons listing six charges under the Ontario Food Safety and Quality Act relating to…
Many interesting questions have been raised recently regarding why a City of Vancouver by-law restricting the use of land belonging to Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was upheld by the courts in BC (CPR v City of Vancouver 2006) notwithstanding the…
It is with great sadness that I respond to a letter that was sent to the Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) members on Sunday, March 11, 2012. In this letter, Randy Hillier MPP for Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and one…
There seems to be some confusion, in regards to the Letters Patents/Crown Grants. The titled paper has expressed that “there are limits to the legal rights” of a patentee/grantee and it is correct, but these rights and responsibilities are covered…
