"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:
Last week's letter, "‘NOTLers’ is not an appropriate nickname" was deeply misguided.
We need only look to our friends the Quebecers, New Yorkers and...
Tim Johnson
Special to The Lake Report
As we reflect upon the seventh annual Celebration of Nations Indigenous gathering in St. Catharines, it’s useful to...
The three most important evolutionary changes on the way to modern humans were bipedalism, repurposing the forelimbs and especially the hands for fashioning and...
Dear editor:
A democracy is based on laws and rules being applied equally and equitably to all people, without favour.
In a municipality, the rules for...
A while back, I rambled about the project-delaying archeological study overkill at the corner of Simcoe and Johnson streets, where a new culvert was...
The perfect marriage, in a technical sense, was the relationship between the computer and artificial intelligence (AI) which began in the 1940s and 1950s.
Like...
Dear editor:
Responding to the discovery of a case of oak wilt at Niagara College, the Chautauqua Oaks Project, in consultation with the Canadian Food...
In architecture, the term “revival” is applied to the various design schools that use visual styles that echo the elements of a previous architectural...
Dear editor:
As residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake for 50-plus years, we have seen incredible development changes in our once-perfect community.
But over the years, as developers grasped...
Dear editor:
Forty-plus years would seem sufficient time for our prior and current council members to discuss a solution to the ever worsening Old Town...
Dear editor:
What happened to motorists' courtesy and common sense?
Recently I was driving along Mary Street toward Mississagua when I came upon waste collectors picking...
