"Without hard boundaries including progressive taxation and dissolution of monopolies, oligarchy will continue to deconstruct society until elections, law, and truth become historical artifacts," writes Keith McNenly.
"The economy has flatlined. Trump’s war went badly. Inflation is back, so interest rates won’t be falling ... But people still want houses. And, of course, everyone wants to live here," writes Garth Turner.
"Any correctly thinking council — one that represents the good of the town and its residents as opposed to commercial real estate investors — would support proper controls and a cap on the short-term rental market," writes Brian Marshall.
"The relatively sudden demise of a once-accepted part of our lives, almost instantly replaced by handheld devices that mostly pass the time in our pockets," writes Ross Robinson.
Wayne Gates
Special to The Lake Report
As the MPP for Niagara-on-the-Lake, our office is working hard to support our local economy, protect cultural heritage and...
Dear editor:
All of a sudden I am receiving paper copies of store flyers delivered to my driveway in plastic bags. Why?
These flyers from Postmedia's...
You’re new in Niagara-on-the-Lake and don’t have a family doctor in town.
Or you’ve lived here forever and maybe your doctor has retired or moved.
Or...
Here on the Path of Totality, eclipse hype continues unabated.
Indeed, Niagara Region chair Jim Bradley has proactively declared a state of emergency ahead of...
Dear editor:
I seriously don’t get it.
Last year, the paper featured opinion letters about speeders and private individuals investing their time to push the region...
Dear editor:
How successful has Niagara Region’s program been to educate drivers to reduce their speed in front of Crossroads Public School?
As a teacher with...
Dear editor:
Having read the letters both by Matthew French and Anthony Powell about fired chief librarian Cathy Simpson's opinion piece ("Censorship and what we...
Dear editor:
Scott Gauld’s views on Niagara-on-the-Lake’s patios (“Vast majority support NOTL’s temporary patios,” March 28) are biased by the fact he is one of...
The following is an edited version of a letter to NOTL library chairman Daryl Novak.
The Association of Library Professionals would like to express its...
Monica Harris
Special to The Lake Report
As the executive director of the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism, I am compelled to address several misrepresentations and falsehoods that were...
The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake has been described as having the greatest concentration of surviving British Colonial architecture built between 1813 and 1860 of any...
Dear editor:
Further to the firing of NOTL Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson, while I don’t know which books are excluded from the library collection,...
