"Although this level of government has the greatest impact on citizens’ daily lives, it is weak, ineffectual, rudderless and dominated by special interests," writes Garth Turner.
Over the last five centuries, says Frank Lloyd Wright, what humanity has called architecture has been "phony": "It was not innate, it wasn’t organic and it didn’t have the character of nature.”
More than 40 years after the debut of this British farce on the Shaw Festival stage, "One for the Pot" returns with excellent performances that contain the elements needed to make this for-the-masses comedy a laugh riot, writes Penny-Lynn Cookson.
"As a pretentious British boss of mine said many years ago ... 'I have found that around the world, one can get on with two languages: English, and loud English,'" writes Ross Robinson.
"I provided you with an opportunity to do the right thing, which you have obviously declined to do. Please be advised that I intend to pursue this in the appropriate forum(s)," writes Derek Collins.
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,...
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...
