"Transparency, lawful decision-making and respect for the limits of municipal authority protect not only the town, but also the residents who ultimately bear the financial consequences," writes Maria Mavridis.
"For whatever reasons, Niagara-on-the-Lake has a history of delaying important decisions; here’s a chance for council to break that pattern and make Canada’s most beautiful town even better," writes David Israelson.
"The government has plenty of time for photo ops and fundraising tours, but not enough time in the House to seriously address the issues families are worried about every day," writes Wayne Gates.
"Media and technology today allow us to be informed, and almost everything is in real time. Not that long ago, less than a century, news travelled at a snail’s pace, if it travelled at all," writes Ross Robinson.
"In 2025, we have borne witness to a series of assaults on the tapestry of Niagara-on-the-Lake," writes Brian Marshall, writing about the Crysler-Burroughs property, Glencairn Hall, the Royal George Theatre and more.
From time to time I come across information about Niagara-on-the-Lake that makes me sit back, scratch my head and wonder.
Take, for example, William Street....
The Chautauqua Residents Association’s new president Brian Crow is forward thinking and sees the problems short-term rentals can cause.
He’s seen first-hand how short-term rentals have...
John Sayers
Special to The Lake Report
Many thanks to Tony Chisholm, president of the Friends of Fort George, for passing along a group of postcard images of...
What can be done with cities that have grown based on automobile dependency?
Sprawling across many square miles, we have created urban environments that have...
Niagara-on-the-Lake is home to countless strong, fearless, talented, hard-working and intelligent women.
We know this first-hand because so many of them contribute to this newspaper and to...
The 1891 Pumphouse on Ricardo Street, shown on the right of this c.1904 photograph, is a fine example of industrial architecture in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Built...
This is an interesting landscape watercolour of the "Fog Bell," below Mississauga Point, showing the wooden "groyne" (breakwater) on the right that was constructed to prevent...
