Increasingly, people are deciding to represent themselves in court, including in Ontario’s civil and criminal courts. Cost is the main reason why people decide to represent themselves, either from the outset of the case, or after months, or even years…
“[It] is not akin to studying the impact of fluttering butterfly wings in Mongolia on flooding in [Ontario]” – Superior Court of Justice Alex and Tania Gilmor of Shelburne, Ontario are heroes. They are heroes because they maintained the fortitude…
A little history, I feel, is in order. For quite some time now, people have been asking me when the removal of private property rights started. Some feel it was back in 1905, others feel, 1913, and yet others feel…
We are at a bizarre stage in history when the words and actions of a Catholic Pope are part of an article on climate change: When 190 world leaders brag about an agreement to spend trillions of dollars on a…
JoAnne Cooney, a director with the Carleton Landowners Association (CLA), has been busy organizing the first ever ‘The Mom Conference’. The goal of the conference is to provide Moms with the information they need so they can live their lives…
I hope that you are enjoying the mild winter, less snow to push, less wood to cut, cheap gas and diesel. One has to love climate change. Enough about the good things. The Ontario Government has appointed a new environmental…
In our November 2015 newsletter, we told you about a hearing that was to take place in Perth regarding the application to question the constitutionality of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) Act. The court…
I hope all is well with you and yours as we head into the New Year, 2016 Property Rights is again in jeopardy in the hallowed halls of Queen’s Park. Bill 118, the Great Lakes Shoreline Right of Passage ACT…
Dwayne and his wife Brenda operated a sizable and successful business called “DB Sports and Marine” in Dryden, Ontario for some years. Much of their business was with Aboriginal people from remote Reserves, who are generally exempt from Retail Sales…
This is the title of a press release by MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, Scott Reid. Reid is a critic for Democratic Institutions and he was responding to the Hon. Maryam Monsef, the minister of Democratic Institutions, on their plan to change…
