I started my career as a Public Health Inspector and Building Official in Brantford Ontario inspecting housing units for Migrant Farm Workers. I moved to more traditional Public Health and Septic Inspection work in Haldimand-Norfolk shortly after. Working in a…
How many times in your life have you made a decision on an important issue only to find out it is completely wrong? Doesn’t happen too often luckily but when the issue is as important as how you live in…
Tom Black, President of the Ontario Landowners Association (OLA), remarked that he always wonders if the AGM for the current year will live up to the ones in years past. Held at the Admiral Inn in Lindsay on October 22,…
The first day of the Constitution Challenge brought by Shawn and Trish was heard in Goderich Superior Court on October 26th. Shawn and Trish Drennan are presenting themselves in this action against K2 Wind Energy and the Ministry of Environment…
In 2003 a new organization was formed in the rural countryside of Lanark County in Eastern Ontario. This new organization was known as the Lanark Landowners Association. As more county groups across Ontario joined the Lanark Landowners, a decision was…
Reprinted with permission of the author and the Landowner Magazine. I’m a younger woman who grew up in the public education system of the 1990’s. I can assure you that private property rights was not a concept or topic that…
I won’t apologize for a long and somewhat technical article because understanding requires more than the sensationalist sound bites of media. Indeed, they deliberately cause most of the confusion and distortion. Michael Crichton addressed the challenge of determining the truth…
In the Liberal government’s September 12 Speech from the Throne, Premier Kathleen Wynne boasted, “Closing Ontario’s coal-fired electricity plants remains North America’s single-largest and most effective climate-change initiative — ever.” While the single-largest cause of the 318% rise in electricity…
In the last Landowner Tom Black spoke in “Rural Reflections” of his puzzlement and pain at watching prime farmland converted to suburban houses and stores. And if you’re wondering what we’re thinking in letting it happen, the short answer is,…
Last week, Marlene and I joined a great group of people from southwestern Ontario, to meet and greet people at the Ontario Landowners tent at the International Plowing Match, just west of Harriston. It was a great experience, with hundreds of people coming…
