Happy New Year everyone and best wishes in 2018. Let us all hope and pray that this year brings some change in politics that reflect what the common people in rural and small town Ontario need to prosper and build…
Ontario Landowners have been around in one form or another for more than 17 years. What started out as protests against regulations and legislation affecting rural residents and businesses has become an active group of advocates for property rights whether…
I would like to wish everyone a very ‘Merry Christmas’ from the Ontario Landowners Association and hope that this special season finds you and yours, healthy and in good spirits. This year has been an extremely busy year for the…
How does the legal system compel you to appear in court to answer to a charge brought against you? This article will deal with the Charging Document, an Information, and the Summons to Appear. I am sure we have all…
On September 28th, a group of five of us sat around on the chairs that surrounded the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority (RVCA) Board members. There was no crowd, just a few presenters, the board members and the Landowner crashers. Yes,…
Midland, as well as many other Municipalities, are in the final stages of their Official Plan Review (OPR). Official Plans have become notoriously complex and are being used by Governments to take control of the 13% of Ontario not already…
Robert Heinlein was a science fiction author who published for almost fifty years from 1939 to his death in 1988. His 1961 book “Stranger in a Strange Land” took on an iconic value for the social and sexual revolution that…
One core principle that is agreed to by every person who is not a rabid partisan of the right or the left is that each and every person really matters. In the heritage of the civilized West, that’s where it…
Approximately seventy people attended this year’s Annual General Meeting in Lindsay, Ontario this year. Held on Saturday, October 21 at the Admiral Inn and Conference, the first order of the afternoon meeting was to introduce the OLA Executive for 2017-2018.…
Here are some examples of property owners (OLA and non-OLA) standing up for their rights and having a successful outcome. 1. When the Province decided to change the Building Code to enforce maintenance of septic systems every five years, Elizabeth…
