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The Turner Report: Worries build as Shaw clams up

"How will heavy construction be handled during the next three summers when Queen is shoulder-to-shoulder with tourists, cars are everywhere and festival season arrives?" writes Garth Turner.

Arch-i-text: NOTL needs apartment buildings — but, the right ones

"This simplistic design approach to apartment buildings has dominated the sector for decades and has resulted in a quasi-institutionalized environment within the resultant neighbourhoods," writes Brian Marshall.

The Forum: Future councils will inherit a colossal financial mess

"This fiscal irresponsibility this term kneecaps our future councils, leaving them little manoeuvring room going forward," writes Steve McGuinness.

Ross’s Ramblings: Some Winter Olympic levity to loosen up the world

"Are we getting better when compared to other nations? Perhaps, but there are so many more events now. Many more opportunities to grab a medal," writes Ross Robinson.

Dr. Brown: Intelligence, whether human or AI, evolves the same way

"AlphaFold2 was like a loyal grad student who learned under the tutelage of humans at Google — not human of course, but a student nontheless and perhaps deserving of a share in the prize," writes Dr. William Brown.

Arch-i-text: Why is it reasonable for developers to request changes?

"We have a passive system designed to support the interests of private developers," writes Brian Marshall.

Dr. Brown: Beginnings, interims and endings — what happens as we age

"There’s no escape: good genes, a healthy lifestyle, timely, effective intervention and treatment along the way, and luck, may put off this or that threat, but in the end, there is an end," writes Dr. Brown

Ross’s Ramblings: A special afternoon, in the right place

"I love my parents for many reasons, including the fact that the differences between gentile and Catholic and Jewish were never discussed," writes Ross Robinson. "To my mom and dad, people were people."

Letter: In Palestine conflict, when is enough, enough?

"This is not a fair war, if it's a war at all. The Israeli military has met limited opposition, but appears intent to annihilate every facet of Palestinian living," writes Ken O'Malley.

Letter: Official plan must be roadmap for future development

"Let’s hope the mayor and council at least reconsider their recent planning decisions, and that when the time comes to decide on the future of the former hospital site, they don’t opt to — as the Joni Mitchell song goes — pave paradise and put up a parking lot," writes Terry Davis.

The Turner Report: In NOTL houses devalue, migrants feast

"There are some 1,500 workers around here. Most stay eight months. They do tasks Canadians reject. Our growers depend on them. To my eye, they also respect and help them," writes Garth Turner.

Letter: We all were warned that floods would happen

"Wind, rain and drought. It’s not going away unless, of course, you don’t believe in any of it. But it’s hard to ignore, isn’t it?" writes Jackie Bonic.

Letter: Gatta was a generous and valued member of community

"My heart goes out to the Gatta family. Your grief is unimaginable but hopefully you can take solace in the legacy Kekoo has left behind. He will be missed," writes Stewart Hall.

Letter: A farmer’s perspective on migrant workers

Dear editor: Your Sept. 5 story, "Migrant Workers have unequal access to resources, volunteer group says," is wrong in a few aspects. The group, Justicia for...

Letter: Defending Israel’s right to self-defence

Kit Andres (Letter, "Canada must stop supplying weapons to Israel," Aug. 22), cannot speak for Mennonites as a whole and I don't believe all...

Dr. Brown: From the Big Bang to current affairs — why I write what I write in The Lake Report

"I’ve enjoyed learning and writing about those and other topics for much the same reasons I would imagine my readers do: we are curious and we want to understand as much as we can about who we are," writes Dr. Brown.

Arts review: ‘Candida’ brings Shaw’s probe of gender roles to 21st century

"In this triangle of love, originally described by Bernard Shaw as 'a mystery,' Candida must choose which of the two men will be her future," writes Penny-Lynn Cookson.

Opinion: Most Canadians support a centre/left viewpoint

"With all the political to and fro of late, a federal election could soon be in the offing. And there have been hints of one coming soon in Ontario," writes Keith McNenly.

The Turner Report: Some things politicians shouldn’t mess with

"If there’s one thing Canada got right in the last four years, it was allowing the central bank do its job. Letting career politicians mess with monetary policy is a sketchy idea," writes Garth Turner in this week's edition of The Turner Report.

Arch-i-text: The history of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s stone houses

Columnist Brian Marshall takes readers on a road trip around Niagara-on-the-Lake to visit a few of the town’s stone houses, constructed and designed in a variety of methods over the years.

Letter: Act of kindness will long be remembered

"That young boy will never forget the kindness shown to him by John Kinney that day. That is what Niagara-on-the-Lake is all about: People helping people," writes Margie Enns.

Letter: Old hospital site better suited to commercial development

"The hospital site is surrounded by commercial properties such as two major hotels, restaurants and the main Shaw Festival theatre," writes Wayne Murray.

Letter: House project is inappropriate for Chautauqua

"This house may be appropriate in a larger setting, but it is totally inappropriate for this site," writes Christopher Allen.

The Turner Report: Entrepreneur turned philanthropist, Goettler again eyes mayoralty

Entrepreneur and 2022 mayoral candidate Vaughn Goettler, writes Garth Turner, is "pragmatic, driven, a tad rumpled, safely retired but far from finished. He has fine real estate, toys and ambition."

Ross’s Ramblings: Aging NOTLers want to have their housing cake and eat it, too

"If we want amenities and services, we must admit that densification is required. Let’s catch up to the rest of the world," writes Ross Robinson.

Letter: Conservatives will hurt local news gathering

"The 5Cs (conservative, competitive, capitalistic, commerce at all costs) would prevail and more local newspapers and radio stations would fail against massively funded U.S. and other media," writes Elizabeth Oliver-Malone.

Dr. Brown: The long road travelled and hope for future

"On good days, Jan knows precisely who I am and responds to cuddling and holding hands and most of my bad jokes," writes Dr. Brown. "So, in some of the most important ways, I haven’t lost Jan."

Letter: Israel must be allowed to defend itself

"I believe in the sanctity of life and in defending myself as well as those who are not able to defend themselves. So, Israel should not defend itself?" writes George Heidebrecht.

Growing Together: Up your harvest by giving pollinators a hand

"With a little effort and dabbling in some science, you can have more produce than you know what to do with," writes Joanne Young.

Arts review: ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ a roaring hit with non-stop laughs

"'One Man, Two Guvnors' is a ribald, rollicking, raucous, roaring hit. To dismiss it with disdain, as some have, is beyond chacun à sans goût — it is to miss the point," writes Penny-Lynn Cookson.

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