"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.
Niagara-on-the-Lake has a problem with people driving too fast in quiet residential areas.
Just ask the folks who live in some of those quiet residential...
If you want to figure out how the brain works, there are several options.
One classical method, which served clinical neurologists and neurosurgeons very...
Dear editor:
Alexander Evans' letter of June 29, "Denying town, SORE legal costs sends important message," is very revealing.
He claims to cheer for the judicial...
Dear editor:
The major reconstruction work being done through Virgil is necessary and welcome and will take time.
That is understood.
However, how that reconstruction is happening...
“The joint was rockin,' goin' round and round.”
With apologies to the late, great Chuck Berry, his lyrics might be appropriate locally almost 70 years later.
It won’t...
We have shared this message before.
The food bank at Newark Neighbours needs help from the generous folks of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The agency is holding another food...
Dear editor:
The right to education is a fundamental human right and is an integral part of achieving gender equality.
However, today millions of girls today...
Dear editor:
I am writing to express my deep concern and disappointment regarding the amount of hate directed toward the LGBTQ+ community.
It is truly disheartening...
Despite widespread voter opposition, last fall Premier Doug Ford and his government rammed through the More Homes Built Faster Act, also known as Bill...
