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Praise for OLA Spring Directors Meeting by Sylvia Rhodes
Happy Sunday! Great presentations yesterday! Kudos to all of you for sharing your stories and some of your approaches to battling your situations. The tenacity, intellectual and emotional strength you continue to demonstrate is impressive. I look forward to hearing…
OLA Press Release – Supreme Court Decision in St. John’s v. Lynch
On November 16, 2023, the Ontario Landowners’ Association (“OLA”) appeared as an intervenor at the Supreme Court of Canada in City of St. John’s v. Wallace Lynch, et al. (“St. John’s v. Lynch”). In this case, the Supreme Court considered…
Is the Seven-Year Housing Fix Feasible? by Mark Tjissen
Alrighty then…3.9 million homes over the next 7 years. My math makes that just shy of 600,000 homes per year starting pretty much right now. Are we talking homes or tents? At a greatly improved 253,000 housing starts this past…
Green Energy “bribes” for Municipalities by Charles Hooker
PM Trudeau has dug down to the municipal level, bypassing the provincial legislatures that create the municipalities, to impose “green energy” on cities, towns and townships by offering bribes. He is not alone. The UN, via the WEF, IPCC and…
Don Johnson’s Thoughts on Andrea Horwath’s Vacant Property Tax
Hamilton is looking to pass a vacant property tax on homes and condos that are not lived in – of course this ties into the new federal increase in capital gains taxes and a new vacant land tax on land…
Everything is Broken but it doesn’t have to be by Elizabeth Marshall
For years, many of us have been attempting to ensure the laws Canadians deal with are fair; treat everyone equally and are not arbitrary. Meaning that when government enacts legislation there is a reasonable thought process and that the legislation,…