Tilting at windmills is a literary phrase that means attacking imaginary enemies or fighting unwinnable battles.
Lorrie Gillis is no Don Quixote and she doesn’t think her enemies are imaginary, nor does she believe her battle is a lost cause, so she continues to “tilt” at the wind power companies that want to turn the rolling farmland in her rural neighbourhood into a wind farm, and the provincial government, that through its proposed new Green Act, will take away her right . . .

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