Welcome back to reality We hope you had a refreshing vacation and are headed into the new year with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and optimism. As we begin 2024, we like to

It is shameful what has happened – repeatedly – to Niagara-on-the-Lake’s rainbow crosswalk. It also is hateful. The Niagara Regional Police Service says it is investigating the latest vandalism as a “potential” hate

Why are people so quick to want to kill all public access to the Parliament Oak site? Several impassioned letter writers have written to this publication and municipal councillors, urging the town not

The Lake Report isn’t shy about its advocacy for human rights or its support of Pride month and the LGBTQ+ community. Every year we transform our masthead into rainbow colours in June. We

Niagara-on-the-Lake is finally going to make short-term rentals charge the same two per cent accommodation tax as hotels do. Although the town is taking its time, giving rental operators a generous seven months

Fourth in a series The first three parts of this series focused on how the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake must immediately apply its municipal accommodation tax to short-term rentals. We looked at how not

Third in a series In the previous two weeks, we have talked about how Niagara-on-the-Lake’s municipal accommodation tax should apply to all accommodation businesses, regardless of size, and how by not doing so,

Last week we talked a little about how the town has already missed out on $600,000 in revenue by not charging its accommodation tax fairly to all accommodation businesses. And fairness is the

Niagara-on-the-Lake prides itself on being a “friendly and welcoming” community. And that might often be true. But what some residents proved on Monday during a special council meeting at the community centre is

First in a series As we reported last week, the town is missing out on an estimated $600,000 in annual revenue because of the previous council’s poor decision to not apply its 2