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Beware of Organizations Bearing Gifts

The Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) recently signed a letter of support for Ontario Farmland Trust’s (OFT) new strategic plan and Farmland Forever funding campaign. They did this on behalf of their members, Ontario farmers, calling the action a united…

Farms Flooded by Municipal Waters

While we watch the devastating floods in southern Alberta, we have our own flooding problems here in Ontario. In Bradford, millions of dollars of crops have been lost after a dike broke for the second time in three weeks. Farmers…

MNR Strikes Again! Still Spying on Farmers!

They don’t learn, they just don’t learn.  On March 20th of this past week, MNR served Anthony Scissons, a sheep farmer from rural Ottawa, with a summons listing six charges under the Ontario Food Safety and Quality Act relating to…

CPR versus City of Vancouver, 2006

Many interesting questions have been raised recently regarding why a City of Vancouver by-law restricting the use of land belonging to Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) was upheld by the courts in BC (CPR v City of Vancouver 2006) notwithstanding the…

OLA Stays The Course

It is with great sadness that I respond to a letter that was sent to the Ontario Landowners Association (OLA) members on Sunday, March 11, 2012. In this letter, Randy Hillier MPP for Lanark, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington and one…