Recent content by lenaitch

The boundaries of government-FN relationships have not been well tested. If a bottom line says that consent must be given - and it is not - then it is an effective veto.

The war he started is apparently not filling enough of his day. I'm sure any advertisers that are signed up for the college games won't mind.

I think it is only certain segments of society that thinks BWCs are the be-all-and-end-all of accountability, but they are certainly a good step. Obviously, field-of-view is a limiting technological issue. When they should be turned on/off is a policy issue. My former service (OPP) I think is...

I'm not aware that is an issue anywhere outside of Quebec.

In the early days of cops having direct access to databases like CPIC, it used to be not unheard of to search people pretty much at random. Members would search daughter's boyfriends, the guy an ex-spouse was dating, etc., sometimes even for friends and neighbours. Policy and legislation...

Well, there is the pesky little piece of federal legislation called the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act, which refers to the UN declaration's position that aboriginal peoples have the right of 'free, prior and informed consent' on all matters affecting their...

Then a subsequent investigation regarding the AG's obstruction of justice.

So is every government department that uses the 'use it or lose it' type of accounting (whatever its formal name is). Government agencies and departments don't spend money that was given to them at the beginning of the FY, they spend allocations that were identified to them.

I don't know the economics of maple syrup but if the bush is suitable and either you or a tenant can get $7K gross off it, it would be considered agricultural and taxed differently. When we had the hobby farm, we leased out to a tenant cash crop farmer and if I recall, our property taxes on 56...

I find the nomenclature to be regional. In southern Ontario, it is a cottage, no matter how plain or fancy it is unless it is clearly a hunt/fish camp. In northern Ontario, the same thing is a camp; doesn't matter if it is a $2Mn mansion. I don't hear 'chalet' too much unless it is adjacent...

I assume you have looked at Dignam's website. They used to put out a catalogue that was interesting to look at. https://www.dignam.com/

She be like 'I'm right here'! Is it jut me or is the more gold bling in that room every time we see it?

I'm actually surprised that a homestead/off grid property could get insurance, period, and suspect many homesteaders wouldn't even try. Insurance companies are so risk-averse now. When we moved to our Victorian farmhouse, it had an operable , WETT inspected wood cookstove and our insurance...

Like images of people stocking up on snow shovels whenever a big storm is forecast, or water, a/c and fuel when a hurricane is predicted. I'm not sure how some people who live in a hurricane or tornado alley seem to be taken by surprise every year. I didn't know coal exhaust was all that...

By the sounds of things, the first step would be to see what you can and cannot do since it seems we can never completely escape the government; only in degrees and depending on your jurisdiction. Ontario has a lot of 'unorganized municipalities'; basically geographic townships with no local...