Letters to the Editor

In publishing Pastor John Tobey's very last letter I am reminded of a 2015 article I wrote about the despicable persecution by the Haldimand authorities in their effort to extort money from an innocent Citizen.
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. Just before Pastor John Tobey passed under the strain he wrote the following:
Over the past few months, there has been much criticism of the Haldimand Council – and rightly so! The following is a condensed rundown of what happened to me. 

On February 29, 2016, a broker approached me saying he could deliver a few loads of fill to the farm. I agreed, as long as it would be dumped and levelled on the farm lanes.

On March 7, the dump trucks started coming. On the same day, the police stopped the trucks from entering the farm so they parked along the shoulder of the highway. County officials said the trucks damaged the shoulder. Such “damage” would not have happened if the trucks had been allowed onto the farm. 

Almas Construction of Hagersville was hired to take away the shoulder and replace it with new cut stone. This action was totally unnecessary! The County billed me for $65,571, and was added to my taxes on March 18, 2016. Under what by-law was this action taken?

On May 2, the Corporation of Haldimand County passed a Site Alteration By-Law No. 1664/16 regulating the dumping of fill in the County and requiring a permit, along with $2,500. I promptly turned this over to the broker, who on May 6 applied for a permit. The permit number, 001 was issued on May 11 and was revoked on June 14 as a result of more “road damage”.

In the fall of 2016, the County hired Dufferin Construction to fix the pavement, which was no worse than any other part of Highway 54. This was formerly a Provincial highway, not a side road, and was built for all traffic, including trucks and other heavy vehicles.

On December 19, 2016, the County added $60,071.21 to my tax roll, plus another $10,828.75 on February 9, 2017. On March 9, 2017, the total for pavement repairs after the Site Alteration By-Law was $67,917.72, making a grand total of almost $140,000. It forced us to sell our farm to pay these fines.

This cost for road damages, both before and after the Site Alteration permit should never have been my problem. I never hired anyone nor was I paid anything for the dumping of fill. My Insurance Company investigated the situation but could not cover it, as the damages were not on my property. 

The County should have charged the broker and the construction companies and/or the dump truck owners. They have full insurance to cover such damages and I am sure that the County would have its own insurance as well. There have been several other incidences like this in the County.

The builders of the new subdivision on McClung Road in Caledonia, as well as the agent who issued their permits, are also liable for they hired the broker and company to dispose of the fill. The County will only deal with property owners, rather than billing those responsible for damages.

Let me ask you this: If you hired someone to do some work on your house or property and he “messed up” on the street in front of your house, would you expect to be charged for the clean-up fee? I think not!  If they charged me, (and they did), they will charge you, too!

John Tobey

Sadly, this intolerant practice of extortion is being tolerated by our Ontario Provincial Government and is metastasizing through the efforts of AMO as a way to augment municipal coffers.

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Welcome to the 'Land of Lunacy'

The Corrupt NPCA Strikes Again! 

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Try to juxtapose a situation where a farmer is mercilessly and maliciously prosecuted for removing predominantly invasive Buckthorn and Hawthorne noxious trees encroaching on his farmland as compared to a developer's total destruction of 434 valuable mature trees of Oak, Maple, endangered Butternut, endangered Flowering Dogwood.

The court case is current. News Alert Niagara will report the outcome at its conclusion. 

No, this is not a photo from Northern Ontario. This photo, taken earlier this week in the beautiful and historic town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, dramatically demonstrates what happens when communities don't control development, when they don't enact private tree bylaws, when official plans aren't updated, when Conservation Authorities are taken over by pro-development-at-any-cost Councillors, when no authorities alert the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry about endangered species and when there is no enforcement of heritage preservation designations. The forest cover on the Randwood Estate was razed this week by developer Benny Marotta who had already raised significant concerns by destroying an adjacent forest track and by ignoring the heritage designation of some boxwood hedges that he had crews remove. Given that no action was taken by the city in the previous incidents and that he likely feared the new Council, recently voted in, would enact a tree bylaw that citizens had pressed the previous Council to put in place, Marotta apparently decided to ensure there would be nothing left to save. Photographic evidence shows that the latest clear-cutting on land behind Weatherstone Court and Christopher Street on the Randwood Estate has not only stripped the land of its trees but has also caused what appears to be significant damage to the nationally significant Dunington-Grubb designed landscape, identified as part of the land’s Heritage designation. (See the before and after photos). The matter has been referred to the Town solicitor for legal recourse under the Heritage Act. A tree inventory noted that among the site's 434 trees there were endangered butternut trees and endangered flowering dogwood before the clearing, neither of which should have been touched without approval from the MNRF. Many of the trees were hundreds of years old. Most supported local pollinators, birds and other wildlife as rich food sources. The white oak, alone, feeds almost 500 species of creatures. The loss of these trees is devastating to the local ecology, to the community's cultural and heritage landscape and to present and future generations of citizens for all the beauty and green infrastructure benefits, including flood control, that the former forest provided. One of the most significant concerns we heard during the election was that residents wanted their elected officials to control development. We hope the new Councils are listening and will put in place the kinds of plans, policies and enforcement that do so.

In this 'Land of Lunacy' we have on one hand a municipality stealing private property equity and on the other the total ignorance of good forest management!

Where is the Ministry of Lands and Forest?

Where is the Ministry of the Environment?

Where is the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority?

These ministries are all mouth when it comes to extorting innocent Property Owners but silent when it comes to developers!
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Why the Double Standard?

"What a way to run a Ship"

Hard to get rid of!

https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2018/10/equity-at-risk.html

 https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2018/10/out-of-frying-pan.html

https://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2018/11/npca-aided-and-abetted-by-none-other_9.html

Trudeau Strikes Again

Chief Little Big Trudeau looking after Chiefs neglects Natives...

Spend money on everything except Canadians!

Courageous First Nations activist Charmaine Stick is taking a stand – again.

Last year, Charmaine partnered with the Canadian Taxpayers Federation to take the chief and council at Onion Lake Cree Nation to court and force

them to open the books as required by The First Nations Financial Transparency Act.

We won a precedent-setting victory in the courts and after years of flaunting the law, Onion Lake Cree Nation finally had to publish its annual

financial statements and the salaries and expenses paid to chief and council.

The numbers didn’t paint a pretty picture. They showed that the chief made $123,000 in 2015 and then gave himself a big raise in 2016. The average income for band members at the Onion Lake Cree Nation is $17,528.

Now we have to fight again. 


A few weeks ago, Charmaine went to the band office to ask for the latest financial statements and the salaries and

expenses paid to chief and council. Officials wouldn’t give her the documents. Nor are they published on the website as required.

And, to top it off, Ottawa still refuses to enforce The First Nations Financial Transparency Act.

NPCA Aided and abetted by none other than...

Kathleen Wynne's stealthy Cabinet Minister MPP Jim Bradley the Minister of Government Agencies, The Environment and several other Ministries plus Cabinet President And Liberal Party leader.

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Cabinet Minister MPP Bradley sat in stealthy silence while his constituents suffered under the enabled corrupt conduct of the NPCA.

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Under tyrannical ideology Bradley allowed the NPCA to expand its control to a whopping 120 Meters from waters edge wiping out equity of property owners and all to feed the need of his Ontario Liberal financial failure.

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Under tyrannical ideology Bradley allowed the NPCA to expand equity-stealing fines from $10k to $50 for any minor infraction unless, of course, to pay-up-front $thousands in extortion to have your infraction overlooked! 

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MPP Bradley was a silent participant in private property equity theft and as usual feigns innocence.

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It's Bradley and his ilk who silently allowed the NPCA to fester and metastasize into a Niagara Region wide embarrassment that destroyed our Niagara Regional Council! 
http://newsalertniagara.blogspot.com/2018/10/out-of-frying-pan.html

Bradley did enough damage including driving the Ontario Liberal Party into the ground with the very humiliating loss of party status. Bradley is the epitome of the worst of party politics! If insider Bradley had a modicum of integrity he would have stayed silent!

This study in elected Corruption (Update #8) is the culmination of years of observation and through the effort of many organizations and a small army of dedicated Citizens in the face of absolute secrecy.

.If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely then surely the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) epitomizes  corruption of power predicated on the NPCA's opinion that they answer to no one, are accountable to no one according to their stated belief in the Ontario Government act that created their absolute authority. 

Never in the history of Canada have so many been deceived by so few!

God's Gift

Some people seem to think they are god's gift to politics!
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Niagara Regional Councilor Bruce Timms wants another chance on the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority (NPCA) because he has unfinished projects that he hasn't finished!
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Obviously he hasn't figured out why the electorate turfed his PC donkey to the curb.
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The answer is: no thanks we think you and your friend Carmen D`Angelo have done enough. 
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If it's not clear to Mr. Timms perhaps he should read the years-long A Study in elected Corruption (Update #7)

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Mr. Timms, your low point was the attempt you and  D`Angelo made to convince everyone that you could create wetlands anywhere; withholding freedom of information from concerned Citizens, not to mention turning your back on your very own supporters!
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Mr. Timms you should have conducted yourself with the electorate in mind instead of following Mr. Carmen (Untouchable*) D`Angelo!
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Now you have the temerity to suggest you would like to be reinstated to the NPCA Board! 
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Have you taken leave of your PC senses?

* Untouchable because Cabinet Member Bradley together with his corrupt Liberal cabal enabled and aided the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority to become the mess that it has become enabling it to steal equity from innocent Niagara property owners. Bradley made it possible as a member of the Standing Committee on Government Agencies!

Out of the Frying Pan...

Is there a discernable political bent to Brock Professor David Seigel?

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According to Brock University political science professor David Siegel as stated in an interview with Allan.Benner@niagaradailies.com of the St. Catharines Standard, “We are starting fresh," Siegel said. "In particular, most of … the conservative cabal is gone."

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Really Professor? Your proclivities are showing, and you are only partly correct! To be correct professor, you would have to include the useless cabal of Liberal enablers along with the equally useless conservatives.

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The electorate didn’t remove all but three useless miscreants because they were left or right! The electorate turfed them simply because they were no damned good.

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It’s a sad commentary that party-politics is even mentioned, but since the professor sees fit to bring his 'party-politics' into the equation, then let’s examine his proclivities.

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The Professor said, 'considering newly elected councilor Jim Bradley's years of experience at Queen's Park, St. Catharines' former MPP is an obvious choice to lead regional council'.

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Obvious choice! Really? 

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What is obvious is MPP Bradley’s participation in running the once proud Ontario Liberal Party into the ground!

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MPP Jim Bradley was much more than just ‘years of experience’.  MPP Jim Bradley was a decades-long Cabinet Member enabling one of worst provincial governments in Ontario’s history! 

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Liberal Cabinet member Bradley sat in stealthy silence while Niagara Citizens suffered under a corrupt Niagara Regional Government.

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Worse, Cabinet Member Bradley together with his corrupt Liberal cabal enabled and aided the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority to become the mess that it has become enabling it to steal equity from innocent Niagara property owners. Bradley was also a member of the Standing Committee on Government Agencies!
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Liberal Cabinet Member Jim Bradley's high position in the Kathleen Wynne Liberal Government obviously points to his role in burdening Ontario Citizens with the worst non-sovereign debt in the world.

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Surely, it’s time to stop with the party politics with its stark flip-flopping leading to jumping from the frying pan into the fire!

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The Citizens of Niagara just purged decades long ‘enablers of crime and corruption’ and Professor, they don’t need another one!

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https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news-story/8984119-region-sheds-toxic-environment-/

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