"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.
Statistics suggest as many as 300,000 Americans and Canadians suffer from a sudden cardiac arrest out of hospital and roughly half can be resuscitated...
Progress and change tends to grind slowly through our universal health care system.
Whether it is the federal government acquiescing to demands and lobbying from...
Dear editor:
Applications have been received for an official plan amendment and zoning bylaw amendment to permit an apartment building containing 41 residential units with...
Dear editor:
I urge every Canadian to read the overview summary of events by a very sincere clerical whistleblower, whose research into the horrors of...
Dear editor:
I am writing regarding your story about a plan for a four-storey apartment building on Mary Street, "Neighbours unhappy with revised plan for 41-unit...
Dear editor:
I am writing regarding Alexander Evans' Jan. 26 letter, "Just ‘ask why,’ when debating property rights in NOTL."
Why does heritage negate individual rights?...
Several decades ago, long before there was any sense of urgency and angst about burning fossil fuels and climate change, scientists began to explore...
Although once considered an expensive plant to be grown by elitists, the orchid has become the top-selling indoor plant.
The orchid family is one of...
Dear editor:
The Jan. 26 letter from Alexander Evans, "Just “ask why” when debating property rights in NOTL," suggests we “ask why” heritage negates individual...
I have always found it odd that the boundaries of Old Town’s national historic district are substantially different than those of the provincially registered...
Dear editor:
After reading Christopher Allen's Jan. 12 letter ("Sculpture seems out of place at new retail plaza,") about the sculpture at the new retail...
Dear editor:
Re: NOTL Hydro president Tim Curtis's guest column "The future is electric vehicles and NOTL Hydro is getting ready," (The Lake Report, Jan....
Good design is important.
Whether it's a building, landscaping or parkland, an artful public display – even how the news is presented on the printed...
