Mysterious Habibullah Ahmad remains untried for attempted murder of Anne Widholm. by Lloyd Billingsley On Sunday, October 8, 2017, Anne Widholm took a morning stroll on the Ganatchio Trail in Windsor, Ontario. The 75-year-old grandmother and Sunday school teacher was picking up litter, as was her custom, when Habibullah Ahmad, 21, attacked the woman and left her unconscious and...
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Chriss W. Street Gov. Jerry Brown’s international cap-and-trade pact to tackle climate change is on the verge of imploding following the election earlier this month of a new government in Ontario, Canada, that ran on the promise of dumping the very expensive climate change deal. The highpoint of Gov. Brown’s effort for the State of California to pursue an...
click here for moreOntario has logging rights, top court rules The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled the Ontario government does not need Ottawa’s permission to permit industrial logging on a First Nation’s traditional lands. While Friday’s unanimous 7-0 ruling may go down as a defeat for the Grassy Narrows First Nation, it does answer an important legal question: can the province can act alone to take up treaty land for forestry and mining? Yes, it can. “I agree with the Ontario Court of Appeal that Ontario and only Ontario has the power to take up lands under Treaty 3,” Chief Justice Beverley… View Article
click here for moreShame on you, Ontario Only in politics can failure be rewarded so richly. Pollsters and pundits were generally predicting the Ontario election would result in a minority for either the incumbent Liberals or the Progressive Conservative party. So everyone is still trying to piece together just what exactly the unexpected Liberal majority means. Some reflections: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. It was clear even during the 2011 election that Ontario was headed down a precarious fiscal path. But the PC party performed poorly, so Dalton McGuinty was reelected. Since then, however, Ontario watched… View Article
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