In the past few months in Ontario, we’ve seen the current provincial government rocked by scandal after scandal. The majority of these revolve around the so-called ABCs – Agencies, Boards, and Commissions. These arms-length organizations reach into every aspect of our lives. There are over 600 agencies, boards and commissions. They include the labour relations review board, and the construction safety association. They govern all aspects of our jobs, such as apprenticeship ratios. Of these agencies, none is worse than the WSIB. [...continued]

There is a growing chasm between the political demands and aspirations of rural Ontario on the one hand and urban Ontario on the other. …[continued]

As Canada becomes more diverse in certain ways, we are increasingly cornering our minds into a collectivist cage of consensus, where vocabulary and reason are shackled in public discourse. Immigration of people from other cultures ought to increase our knowledge and expand our perspective, but not if we hold our freedoms captive while unlocking the doors of morality with relativism. [...]

By Randy Hillier and Scott Reid
Most people think of land ownership as being two-dimensional-the sort of thing that you can plot on a map. But property ownership also has a third dimension, relating to what’s underneath the soil. Sometimes it’s the landowner himself who owns potentially valuable minerals that can lie under the surface [...]

If the current trend continues – and there is no reason to think otherwise –, farming in the province of Ontario will soon be a relic of the past and a practice played out not in the fields, but in memory only. Years from now when the last family farm is bankrupt and corporate factory farms have finished monopolizing the industry, people will look back and wonder if the destruction was avoidable [...]