"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.
Dear editor:
Rob Bongard's views on Niagara-on-the-Lake's temporary patios ("Temporary patios filthy and attract vermin," letter, March 21) are clearly not shared by the vast...
In this third instalment in a five-part series on "Middle Land: worlds beyond our senses," our attention shifts.
Beyond the dazzling worlds of physics...
Dear editor:
Having read about the firing of library CEO Cathy Simpson in the March 21 edition of your paper I was struck by the following.
Daryl Novak,...
Dear editor:
I read with interest, both Cathy Simpson's original column and the letter from Matthew French.
He characterizes her comments as talking points from the...
Lord Mayor Gary Zalepa
Special to The Lake Report/NiagaraNow.com
The Shaw Festival is an integral part of our community.
It is not only the cultural centre of...
Dear editor:
I would like to voice my alarm at the firing (pun intended) of chief librarian Cathy Simpson.
After rereading her op-ed and then reviewing...
Dear editor:
Thank you for publishing Kit Andre’s Letter to the editor, "Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict," (March 14).
I am both a Methodist (by...
Dear editor:
I read Niagara-on-the-Lake Public Library CEO Cathy Simpson’s opinion piece about Freedom to Read Week, (“Censorship and what we are allowed to read,”...
Dear editor:
Temporary restaurant patios on Queen and King streets in Old Town NOTL are filthy, ugly, unfair, unsafe and they take up valuable parking...
Dear editor:
Your letter writer Kit Andres speaks of the Mennonite duty to condemn violence ("Mennonites want ceasefire in Israel-Palestine conflict," (March 14).
This is a...
Well, once again that furry, little, loveable groundhog – Wiarton Willie – seems to have accurately predicted the coming of an early spring (although,...
Over the past few years, this column has stressed the importance of sympathetic — and contextually appropriate — design to achieve new developments (or...
Dear editor:
In The Lake Report on Feb. 15, columnist Brian Marshall wrote a rather sympathetic article, (“A concrete look at local governance,”) that essentially...
It was perhaps fitting that Niagara-on-the-Lake boxer Mckenzie Wright’s latest ring battle occurred on International Women’s Day.
Fighting in the 50-kilogram weight class, the diminutive...
Dear editor:
As we await the publication of Niagara-on-the-Lake's tourism strategy report, it was amusing to read about the committee members, and others, sanitizing particular...
