"So, what direction will NOTL voters choose? That’s impossible to predict but what we do know is it has never been easier to exercise your democratic franchise," writes Kevin MacLean.
"At the end of the day, we need someone who can get Ford to respect us until we can try again to vote him out. The question, I guess, becomes, what’s the best strategy?" writes Richard Harley.
"If we elect the same people (and most are reoffering) we’ll get the same result. More hotels. More bending over for tourism. More construction. More old buildings razed. More density. More compromise. More loss," writes Garth Turner.
"If you are one of the approximately 191,000 Niagara residents that live outside the boundaries of the three large cities, you have just been marginalized as a perpetual member of the minority," writes Brian Marshall.
"He had the large sculpture placed in front of the Prince of Wales Hotel, but local leaders didn’t think it belonged at the corner of King and Queen streets. Much controversy ensued and Gerry the Giraffe was soon turfed," 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,...
