What you saw as a delight to share, a lawyer might see as an “attractive nuisance,” should some trespasser drown themselves. Landowners are constantly aware of the legal risks our litigious society exposes them to.

In a perfect world, we could all wander wherever we wished, we would all be respectful of each other’s use of land, and we would all take responsibility for the consequences of our actions.

However, it’s an imperfect world, strewn with abuse of commons, which resulted in these inconveniences called “property” and “boundaries.”

Your “cranky lady” might have simply been a jerk, or might have had visions of boys drowning in her pond and her ending up in court, or might have been thinking the area would be strewn with litter after your departure. Cut her some slack, and ask permission next time before trespassing.

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The report says the main Statistics Canada building, a 56-year-old two-storey brick building housing 1,700 workers at the Tunney’s Pasture government complex in Ottawa, is already suffering weather-related failures that will eventually threaten its structural integrity.

It says there is a “strong probability of a severe effect due to climate change” including failure of outer brick walls due to moisture penetration as rainfall increases in both frequency and severity in a changing climate.

This was a photo taken of us after a cranky lady demanded we “get out of her garden”. The incident was spurred by my eager recruit of the boys into her backyard to see the pond behind it.

Pwnd by the bitchy neighbourhood hag.

Under Canadian constitutional law, health is primarily the responsibility of the provinces.

“Chapter 6, Health Impacts of Climate Change in Quebec, and Chapter 7, Health Impacts of Climate Change in Canada’s North, are assessments of vulnerabilities to health in two regions of the country; both cover the full scope of the issues addressed in this Assessment. These regions were selected because of the availability of data, case studies and research expertise.”