"A&M are pumping their latest project. It’s a whopper. If the sisters get their way with local politicians (once again), the old Rand Estate will turn into a five-storey, 111-room luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel," writes Garth Turner.
"Should any future council enact an interim control bylaw, underwritten by a duly compliant study, it will be largely legally unassailable," writes Brian Marshall.
"Niagara-on-the-Lake should not be treated as an extension of a 'Vegas North' casino economy. We are not a desert entertainment strip," writes Keith McNenly.
"I have heard that during his 26 years as mayor, Henry Paffard advocated for the planting of over 1,000 trees. By any measure, that’s a lot of limbs and leaves and shade and oxygen. And with trees come squirrels," writes Ross Robinson.
"Regardless of differences of opinion over development projects, I recognize that public discourse should be conducted respectfully and without casting aspersions on others," writes Stewart Hall.
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...
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...
