"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.
SUBMITTED BY J. RICHARD WRIGHT, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I just read a letter from reader Glenn Young (NOTL could reap millions by working with corporate brands)...
SUBMITTED BY RICK CULLIS, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Last week’s issue of The Lake Report contained an op-ed that I’d like to take issue with. David Israelson’s...
SUBMITTED BY WILLIAM COCHRANE SR., NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Re: “Town urged to crack down on short-term rentals,” The Lake Report, June 6:
In support of the argument...
We all make mistakes, keep secrets. Sometimes we overreact, are tentative and cautious, worried about doing the right thing. That can be understandable.
But in this modern...
SUBMITTED BY RAINER HUMMEL, HUMMEL PROPERTIES INC.OPINION
Dear editor:
Providing any kind of rental housing, regardless of price, is extremely difficult to accomplish. It’s the reason...
SUBMITTED BY GLENN YOUNG, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I read The Lake Report’s editorial last week, The good – no bad, no ugly.
Although I agree with the yea’s you...
SUBMITTED BY TERRY DAVIS, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Despite receiving at least three complaints from concerned residents, Niagara-on-the-Lake has not required the developer of a property at...
SUBMITTED BY JAMES WILSON, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I was unhappy to read Neil Tokar’s May 16 letter to the editor “A liberal defence of Tory Sam Oosterhof”...
SUBMITTED BY JASON CLEMENTS, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor headlined, Who wants to live beside a party...
SUBMITTED BY DEREK COLLINS, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
The members of Save Our Rand Estate should be congratulated on their success in obtaining the well-deserved party status (now confirmed by...
SUBMITTED BY NEIL TOKAR, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
Sam Oosterhoff, the MPP from Niagara West, made himself all sorts of political enemies last week.
The sharks are circling around this...
SUBMITTED BY RYDER PAYNE, NOTL.OPINION
Dear editor:
I have to tell you how much I have enjoyed James Tupman’s epistolary serial, The Wetland Horrors, and his concerns about...
