"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:
I am writing to echo previous letters imploring people not to hoard goods during the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are many people who are dealing with chronic illness...
Dear editor:
Hospital staff know when they are dealing with sick people and take all the precautions they possibly can.
Grocery store staff are dealing with the...
Dear editor:
We have read some wonderful stories of people getting home safely to NOTL as the virus risk intensified around the world.
Our daughter had...
Dr. William Brown
Special to The Lake Report
It seems ages ago since the pall of the advancing COVID-19 pandemic descended on the world.
What began in...
Dear editor:
The Workers Welcome website provides information regarding welcome kits and the Bikes for Farmworkers program.
Go to https://www.workerswelcomeniagara.com/ for full details.
Please use the contact information...
Dear editor:
While out at a major Niagara-on-the-Lake retailer, I was dismayed and saddened to see a fellow NOTLer, deeply tanned, hug a woman and then hear him...
After days of confusion and mixed messages, the federal government finally announced late last week that seasonal farm workers would be allowed in to...
Syme JagoSpecial to The Lake Report
Twice in the past week, I interacted, in a manner, with people who had just returned from stays in Florida and aren’t isolating...
Dr. William BrownSpecial to The Lake Report
Unlike simple cells such as bacteria, viruses like the corona family of viruses, travel light: without help they...
Dear editor:
I read with interest the very long March 20 article (“Border closure ‘devastating’ for Niagara farmers, Wiens says”), regarding the initial restrictions that...
Gary ZalepaSpecial to The Lake Report
As public concerns developed over the COVID-19 pandemic, Niagara Region offices began to receive about 750 calls daily compared to...
