"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.
From newborn to their nineties, the women of Niagara-on-the-Lake turned out this past Monday morning in a show of strength and solidarity.
Tomorrow — Friday,...
Dear editor:
We read the article about town council’s discussion regarding our present tree bylaws (“Restrictions on tree cuttings are unfair, councillors say”) in the...
Dear editor:
One could hardly disagree that members of the Marotta family has been treated by many in the Niagara-on-the-Lake community, including our elected officials,...
Dera editor:
Further to The Lake Report's Feb. 22 story, "Town’s restrictions on tree cuttings are unfair, councillors say," this subject requires better thinking about...
Dear editor:
The divisive, far right American culture wars have arrived at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Public library and, shockingly, the call is coming from within the...
Dear editor:
When I wrote to members of town council about our tree bylaw and protecting trees on construction sites, particularly in Chautauqua, I only...
No one doubts artificial intelligence’s ability to crunch huge amounts of data.
What surprises some, however, is how well it learns, innovates and even seems...
Kyra Simone
Special to The Lake Report
Minimal snowfall and balmy temperatures have caused confusion this winter.
A symptom of both the climate crisis and El...
Public libraries should be home to many viewpoints, not just progressive ones
Cathy Simpson
Special to The Lake Report
Almost as long as there have been libraries,...
Once hominin species developed the requisite cognitive underpinnings for imagination, creativity and symbolic language for sharing what was going on in their brains with...
