"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.
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...
