"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:
I am greatly saddened and outraged by the hate messages repeatedly spray-painted on Niagara-on-the-Lake's rainbow crosswalk.
To add insult to injury, the comments of...
For most of the 1700s, the controlling elements of British society were staunchly conservative, promoting the values of rationalism, order and harmony; attitudes that...
Dear editor:
I respectfully disagree with Alexander Evans' suggestion that in a previous letter to the editor I labelled developer Benny Marotta's life as "frivolous."
I...
It is shameful what has happened – repeatedly – to Niagara-on-the-Lake's rainbow crosswalk.
It also is hateful.
The Niagara Regional Police Service says it is investigating...
Dear editor:
The concept of a "vibrant and complete community" is seen as an important goal in the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s 2022-2026 strategic plan.
Strangely, planning...
Dear editor:
The proposed three-storey condominium building to be constructed on the backyards, severed from numbers 727 and 733 King St., came as a gut...
Dear editor:
I’m sorry to hear that letter writer Bob Bader finds developer Benny Marotta’s life “frivolous,” (" ‘Economic progress’ and the future of Niagara-on-the-Lake,"...
Dear editor:
I read with considerable interest the July 20 article by Somer Slobodian, “Kayakers feeling pushed out of Balls Beach.” Being a kayaker myself,...
Dear editor:
We extend our appreciation to The Lake Report for its "Mind Your Meters" stories on July 27.
Those stories assisted in raising awareness...
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...
