Is there any hope for the rural way of life or will we all get sucked up into the urban sprawl with ‘nary a whimper’? We have been trying, our dwindling voices in the wilderness, calling out to anyone who…
Message from Tom Black, OLA President Wind Turbines have become one of the most divisive programs that man has ever introduced into the rural countryside. Not many inventions have stirred the kind of emotion that is currently tearing the country…
It was a bittersweet victory for a Florida property owner who refused to buckle under the heavy handed demands of a government agency that denied his request for a development permit. Coy Koontz, Sr.’s battle against injustice did not end…
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) recently signed a letter of support for Ontario Farmland Trust’s (OFT) new strategic plan and Farmland Forever funding campaign. They did this on behalf of their members, Ontario farmers, calling the action a united…
It’s a full time job keeping up with new regulations, surfing the net for rules we may not know about, looking up sites to see how many tanker loads full of uninspected Chinese food is slipping through our ports, onto…
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…
