Tag Archive: Ontario

on July 11, 2014 in World News

Ontario has logging rights, top court rules

Ontario 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

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on June 14, 2014 in World News

Shame on you, Ontario

Shame 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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