Have Your Say: Danger of Ontario Bill 66 highlighted by Municipal Council going rogue
January 24, 2019
To the Editors, Bill 66, currently before the Legislature, threatens to unravel a wide range of environmental protections in Ontario’s land use planning rules. Last... ...read more
Have Your Say: Animals, automobiles and alternative routes
January 24, 2019
To the Editors, Animals are beaten and killed everyday. How fitting it is that dogs seem to enjoy chasing cars often times being a large... ...read more
OFA’s advice to government: invest in rural Ontario
January 24, 2019
By Brent Royce To The Haldimand Press Balancing a budget is tough and takes vision and discipline. The Ontario government is working on balancing the... ...read more
Cutting costs and red tape puts us back in business
January 17, 2019
By MPP Toby Barrett To The Haldimand Press Before Christmas, Todd Smith, Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, announced over 30 actions to... ...read more
Have Your Say: Will Canada follow through in budget 2019?
January 17, 2019
To the Editors, I recently participated in pre-budget hearings in Toronto hosted by Canada’s Finance Committee and I’m concerned. Justin Trudeau regularly claims to be... ...read more
Have Your Say: RE: Council approves pay raise in wake of federal tax legislation, January 10, 2019
January 17, 2019
To the Editors, I wonder: does anyone around here have children or grandchildren? Apparently not. In fact, certainly not, if we judge by the views... ...read more
Bringing ag and rural issues to the next federal budget
January 17, 2019
By Rejean Pommainville, Director, OFA To The Haldimand Press When the federal government presents its next budget, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA) wants to... ...read more
New Year’s resolution: Support local agriculture
January 17, 2019
By Will Stoneman, Haldimand Member Representative, OFA To The Haldimand Press January seems a suitable time to recap on the events from the 2018 season.... ...read more
Swinging into summer and the passing of fall
January 9, 2019
By MPP Toby Barrett To The Haldimand Press Six months ago MPPs returned to Queen’s Park for a rare summer sitting to begin turning our... ...read more
Have Your Say: Council approves pay raise in wake of federal tax legislation
January 9, 2019
To The Editors, The federal Liberal’s, in their great wisdom, have decided to remove the one third tax exemption for municipal and provincial elected officials... ...read more
