From Australia comes a story about a Senator who considers Crown Land Patents important documents that guarantee property rights. According to Wikipedia, Len Harris, a self-employed businessman and gold miner, was a Senator for Queensland from July 2, 1999 to…
This year, the Ontario Landowners held a series of Municipal Law Seminars designed to share our findings regarding private property and municipal responsibilities and limitations. The first in the series was organized by Donna Burns, President of the Renfrew &…
My first taste of “rural discrimination” began in the school system. Not intentionally I’m sure. The teachers just weren’t used to journals by grade 1 rural farm boys showing guns and dead wolves. The real shocker was his journal picture…
The 2013 OLA annual general meeting, held in Tyrone Ontario was the scene of a major announcement. Kurtis Andrews, a lawyer with Green and Associates Law Offices in Ottawa and guest speaker at the meeting, told the crowd of about…
Message from Tom Black, OLA President As we near the end of 2013, I wonder what next year will have in store for the citizens of this province, this country and the world in general? Weather extremes, political extremists, religious…
The Ontario Landowners Association’s third “Municipal Law Seminar” was a huge success, with an attendance of 200 plus. The people who attended left the seminar armed with new knowledge that will serve them well when dealing their Municipality and the…
Only 18 more days before the OLA AGM in Tyrone, Ontario. The date for the AGM (October 19th) is fast approaching and we want to make sure that we have enough food ordered for everyone who wants to stay for…
Conservation Authorities (CA) want your land and they have a number of strategies to acquire title to it. In our August newsletter, we wrote about Ontario Farmland Trust and their Farmland Forever funding campaign, a clever scheme to convince farmers…
Increasingly, property standards bylaws are becoming more about how your property looks rather than whether it is safe. Do you have an old couch or a kitchen chair on your front porch? Do you store your recycling receptacles in your…
When the average Canadian hears a knock at his door, he/she usually answers it. If the person knocking is one of either the R.C.M.P., the dog catchers, the humane society, the City Police, M.N.R., M.O.E or the O.P.P., anybody with…
