"A&M are pumping their latest project. It’s a whopper. If the sisters get their way with local politicians (once again), the old Rand Estate will turn into a five-storey, 111-room luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel," writes Garth Turner.
"Should any future council enact an interim control bylaw, underwritten by a duly compliant study, it will be largely legally unassailable," writes Brian Marshall.
"Niagara-on-the-Lake should not be treated as an extension of a 'Vegas North' casino economy. We are not a desert entertainment strip," writes Keith McNenly.
"I have heard that during his 26 years as mayor, Henry Paffard advocated for the planting of over 1,000 trees. By any measure, that’s a lot of limbs and leaves and shade and oxygen. And with trees come squirrels," writes Ross Robinson.
"Regardless of differences of opinion over development projects, I recognize that public discourse should be conducted respectfully and without casting aspersions on others," writes Stewart Hall.
Dear editor:
Someone has been posting notices on utility poles around Queenston.
It's important to note that these are "guest courtesy rules," not "resident courtesy rules." I was...
Dear editor:
One afternoon last week two male individuals were throwing a tennis ball on Queen Street.
One proceeded to throw it at the cenotaph, hitting it...
Dear editor:
It’s 3:45 p.m. Sunday and I just got off the Niagara-on-the-Lake webcam, curious to see what Queen Street looked like.
To my surprise it...
Dear editor:
The following is an open letter to Lord Mayor Betty Disero:
The town does not want tourists at this time.
The outlook parking at Queen and...
Please stay home.
Don’t come to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
We really want you to visit, just not now. Another time. Please.
Those are the messages the Town of NOTL has...
Dear editor:
I read with interest The Lake Report story on April 9 about the racial profiling of some farm workers that has been occurring in Niagara. How sad...
Dear editor:
I was appalled as I read about the treatment Yvonne Bredow received by people in this town, ("Racist attitudes a common occurrence," The...
Dear editor:
Bravo to Yvonne Bredow for her April 16 opinion piece about racism she has encountered in Queenston and the Old Town, ("Racist attitudes a...
Dear editor:
I never thought in a million years that I would ever be writing this letter for the benefit of Niagara-on-the-Lake residents.
In the last few...
Dear editor:
The world will not be the same post COVID-19. Make no mistake, world economies have been devastated and business as usual will not return quickly.
Economic...
Dear editor:
Further to Ward Simpson’s letter on the topic of people littering the post office mail box lobby, I suspect these same folks don’t realize how...
Dear editor:
As the COVID-19 curve in Canada begins to flatten, our federal, provincial and municipal leaders should be commended for their efforts to manage...
Dear editor:
The following is an open letter to Lord Mayor Betty Disero and Premier Doug Ford.
While I understand that, at the local level, our lord...
Dear editor:
Yvonne Bredow's story about racism in Niagara is obviously, an accusation to be taken seriously, ("Racist attitudes a common occurrence," April 16).
I think many of...
Dear editor:
Re: Yvonne Bredow's story, "Racist attitudes a common occurrence," (The Lake Report, April 16):
I'm a minority, of sorts, in that I'm from a...
Kevin MacLean
Managing Editor
Sometimes the truth hurts. Or is uncomfortable. Or lays waste to our closely held beliefs. Or makes us angry.
The Lake Report reported...
Dr. William Brown
Special to The Lake Report
Some liken the current pandemic and financial crises to Black Swan events – rare as the chance of spotting...
Longtime NOTL resident Susan Hall, a warden at St. Mark's Anglican Church, has been unexpectedly caught up in the COVID-19 pandemic while visiting family in Brighton,...
Dear editor:
I find it very embarrassing when I walk into our local post office and find the mess of people’s unwanted junk mail, flyers, our local newspapers etc. that...
