After decades of service reductions and track demolition it seems the tide is turning on railway transportation in Ontario and Quebec. Freight carriers, primarily Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific (CP) report increasing demand for long-haul services while short-lines (local…
On Monday, April 23, North Gower landowners attended a Court of Revision meeting to appeal assessments to upgrade the Cranberry Creek municipal drain. An engineer’s report completed in December 2017 was the basis for the assessments. Of the 300 households…
As I pen this page, I think of my ancestors who came to this country from the Emerald Isle, to escape the potato famine. The population of Ireland in 1835 was about 8 million people. Though accurate records were not…
Frank Burke, president of the North Renfrew United Landowners (NRUL), welcomed everyone to a meeting on Wednesday, February 7, 2018. He introduced Tracy McIntyre, Account Manager Municipal and Stakeholder Relations, and Kenneth Rennick, Manager of Valuations and Customer Relations from…
This was the title of the November 23, 2014 episode of Cross Country Checkup with host Rex Murphy. Landowners have long complained about the state of justice in Ontario and, indeed, across the country. We are familiar with the process…
Municipalities and other public bodies are charged with making decisions which have wide-reaching impacts across broad swaths of society. They are often mandated to do so, explicitly or implicitly, in the public interest, and in a free, open, and democratic…
I am starting a new series of articles. I hope the last series was able to remove some of the mystery when appearing in court to answer charges brought against you using the Provincial Offences Act relating to municipal by-laws,…
“It is dangerous to be right in matters where men in authority are wrong,” Voltaire. I received three lawsuits all from the same lawyer and all from members of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I had options,…
Israel is surprisingly often on the front lines of the free world. It certainly has all the right enemies, from Hitler to the Soviet Union to the Iranian theocracy. And so the question arises: Does it have the right friends?…
On Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018, MPP Jack MacLaren rose in the House in Toronto to present a private member’s bill, called The Affordable Electricity Act, # 197. It was a Bill to address the high electricity costs that have plagued…
