
Letter: Taxpayers shouldn’t pay for Pride crosswalk
Dear editor: Regarding Ernest Chan’s letter, “Rainbow crosswalk only costs each taxpayer a few cents,” (The Lake Report, Aug. 10), all I can say is any number divided by 18,000 tends to become

Dear editor: Regarding Ernest Chan’s letter, “Rainbow crosswalk only costs each taxpayer a few cents,” (The Lake Report, Aug. 10), all I can say is any number divided by 18,000 tends to become

Dear editor: Society built the closet for LGBTQ+ people and gave them a choice: 1. To live in the closet in relative social safety, by our rules, which required a lifetime of pretending

Dear editor: On behalf of Niagara-on-the-Lake Community Palliative Care Service, we are happy to report that our Shred-it fundraiser was a huge success on Saturday. We thought that with a paperless world developing

Dear editor: As a taxpaying resident of Niagara-on-the-Lake, I agree with the comments of Coun. Erwin Wiens in the Aug. 3 article “Crosswalk vandalism cleaned up quickly” and with his opinion concerning the responsibility

Dear editor: The saying, “children are our future,” is so often repeated as to have become almost banal – trite, even. Very much the worse, for that: because the stark truth and pragmatism

Dear editor: The letter in last week’s edition “NOTL needs to reject King St. apartment” highlights an issue that should have us all worried. No one living in this neighbourhood ever considered that

Dear editor: People are probably aware of Dying With Dignity Canada, an organization which led the push to get medical assistance in dying (commonly known as MAiD) legalized in 2016. My own reading

Dear editor: This is my alert to the Niagara-on-the-Lake community. Have you heard about the three-storey, 17-unit apartment/condo building coming to our neighbourhood? This is not Parliament Oak. This is not the Rand Estate. This

Dear editor: In response to all of the recent material about speeding in Niagara-on-the-Lake, I would like to add my input. I am in St. Davids and I captured, on video, a car

Hello NOTL! My name is Laura Kott, and my husband John and I purchased the Pet Valu store here in town back in April. We are excited to be part of your community

Dear editor: The decision to commence budget talks in the fall is a welcome step in the right direction, (“Plans for 2024 budget talks to start this fall – to avoid last year’s

Dear editor: I am greatly saddened and outraged by the hate messages repeatedly spray-painted on Niagara-on-the-Lake’s rainbow crosswalk. To add insult to injury, the comments of Coun. Erwin Wiens, who said that the

Dear editor: I respectfully disagree with Alexander Evans’ suggestion that in a previous letter to the editor I labelled developer Benny Marotta’s life as “frivolous.” I also disagree with Mr. Evans’ portrayal of

Dear editor: The concept of a “vibrant and complete community” is seen as an important goal in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s 2022-2026 strategic plan. Strangely, planning staff and council refuse to recognize that

Dear editor: The proposed three-storey condominium building to be constructed on the backyards, severed from numbers 727 and 733 King St., came as a gut punch to neighbours who were promised a projects

Dear editor: I’m sorry to hear that letter writer Bob Bader finds developer Benny Marotta’s life “frivolous,” (” ‘Economic progress’ and the future of Niagara-on-the-Lake,” July 27). Because, and let us be absolutely

Dear editor: I read with considerable interest the July 20 article by Somer Slobodian, “Kayakers feeling pushed out of Balls Beach.” Being a kayaker myself, I cannot say I agree with that sentiment.

Dear editor: We extend our appreciation to The Lake Report for its “Mind Your Meters” stories on July 27. Those stories assisted in raising awareness of the current and growing problem of

Dear editor: Alexander Evans’ letter of June 29, “Denying town, SORE legal costs sends important message,” is very revealing. He claims to cheer for the judicial system awarding costs to discourage frivolous lawsuits,

Dear editor: The major reconstruction work being done through Virgil is necessary and welcome and will take time. That is understood. However, how that reconstruction is happening is unexpected and aggravating for drivers

Dear editor: On July 13, in an op-ed piece (“A hotel is only option to preserve public access,“) the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Lake Report, Richard Harley, stated that council should allow

Dear editor: On behalf of Willowbank in Queenston and myself, I wish to pay tribute to John Kormos, whose obituary appeared in the July 20 edition of The Lake Report. We offer condolences

Dear editor: First of all, regarding The Lake Report’s July 13 about the “councillor not surprised” at the “ruling” against the town’s loss at the Ontario Land Tribunal, let’s be perfectly clear: The

Dear editor: The state of our armed forces is a major concern. It is a total embarrassment that we are fourth from the bottom for not keeping up with our financial commitment to NATO.

Dear editor: The right to education is a fundamental human right and is an integral part of achieving gender equality. However, today millions of girls today still face obstacles such as child marriage,

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