Slip And Fall
Everyone has heard a story of a friend or relative who has suffered a slip and fall accident. This kind of accident may occur in an icy parking lot in the winter or on a wet floor of a retail store. In Ontario, the law applicable to these accidents is found in the...
Road, Public
In the 1850’s, the Province of Ontario began to set up a colonization roads programme to encourage settlement in the pre-Cambrian shield area. The area involved was north of the Severn River and south of the French River between the Ottawa River and Georgian Bay. The...
Road, Public
Some cottagers in Haliburton gain access to their cottage properties by a road over another person’s private property. The road may have started long ago, when an owner, in a neighbourly spirit, permitted a cottager to cut across the owner’s private property as a...
Road, Public
This is the time of year for potholes on highways and municipal roads in Ontario. If you have been to Toronto recently, driving the downtown streets, you may end up, as I did, hitting a good-sized pothole and having to pull over to see if the tire was going flat....
Road, Access
The Road Access Act dramatically affects private rights of land ownership and has been around since 1978. It is about road disputes and about avoiding risks of violence to persons and property generated by the dispute. Here is how it happens in the County of...
