"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:
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Old Town spreads right along the shores of Lake Ontario to the mouth of the Niagara River.
Five “villages” – Old Town, Queenston,...
Over the past few weeks, we have explored a number of 19th-century architectural styles and visited local examples.
From Georgian to Gothic Revival and...
Dear editor:
According to a recent poll released by Mental Health Research Canada, 51 per cent of Canadians said inflation was having a negative impact...
Dear editor:
I attended the virtual town meeting of Sept. 12, regarding the King Street proposal for an apartment building.
I heard the applicant's representative...
It has been a sad week for Canadian journalism.
The bad news started quietly Sept. 12 with word the Glengarry News, a 131-year-old family-owned newspaper...
Dear editor:
You may have noticed a new sign on Niagara Stone Road near Crossroads Public School in Virgil. It says, “Municipal speed camera coming soon.”
The...
Dear editor:
After reading Dr. William Brown's column last week ("Artificial intelligence plays a burgeoning role in health care," Sept. 7), it made me think back on...
Dear editor:
I would appreciate the opportunity to rebut Dolores Hindle-Derbyshire's opinion that "NOTLers" is not an appropriate nickname for those who live in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
I...
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...
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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...
