If you are concerned about the Alto High-Speed Rail project, I highly recommend you follow Erin Durant. Durant, a Ottawa-based lawyer and founder of Durant Barristers, has been writing extensively about what she has learned about the Alto project. She…
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, on behalf of the Building Code Short-Term Advisory Body (“Advisory Body”), is seeking public input as part of a review of Ontario’s Building Code to identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary regulatory burden, improve…
A well-respected member of rural Ottawa once said “Ottawa does not have a revenue problem; they have a spending problem”. I believe they still do – not enough money to fix our rural roads or clean out our rural ditches,…
For two years, the people of Ontario have watched the City of Hamilton pursue Wendell and Faye Leytham — farmers on Crown Patent agricultural land — for doing what farmers have done in this province for more than 200 years:…
Across rural Canada, there is a growing sense that something fundamental is shifting. It is not just one bill, one policy, or one department. It is a pattern. From criminal law to digital surveillance to online regulation, a suite of…
There are two separate and exciting events happening this month: a meeting in Lake Saint Paul, Ontario on June 6th and a protest on Parliament Hill on June 10th. PEHN Landowner Meeting The Prince Edward-Hastings-Northumberland chapter of the Ontario Landowners…
Tree cutting By-laws in Ontario will continue until the province and municipalities understand the difference between destroying or damaging a tree and Harvesting a tree under Normal Farm Practice. Why? Because Context Matters. What is being debated in these cases…
Imagine you run a cattle operation in eastern Ontario. Your family has farmed the same land for generations. You know your pastures, your hayfields, the wet spots that flood in spring, the woodlot where the cattle shelter on hot days.…
With the final passage of the Liberals’ omnibus budget bill, the HighSpeed Rail Network Act is now law. The Liberals used this law to give themselves special expropriation powers to build the high-speed rail line. Here are 5 changes the…
By: Jeff Bogaerts Tree cutting by-laws. Have municipalities exceed their authority on Agricultural land? History has shown that when government becomes involved in Agriculture it usually does not go well for the people. The City of Hamilton refuses to see…
