"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.
I recall during one of my parents’ early 1960s cocktail parties overhearing my father state with great disdain that, in the Duplessis government’s Quebec,...
Dear editor:
After reading Niagara Foundation president Lyle Hall's op-ed piece in The Lake Report last week ("Niagara Foundation wants to protect The Wilderness,") I could...
Dear editor:
Members of Bethany Mennonite Church want to thank the community for their support of the borscht lunch and bread sale.
A big thanks to Pat...
New beginnings. A clean slate. A fresh start. New opportunities. High expectations.
A new Niagara-on-the-Lake town council was sworn in Tuesday night, with fully half...
Dear editor:
We are writing in response to developer Benny Marotta's letter published Nov. 17, ("Hoping new council will be open to discussions on development).
You...
The pandemic interrupted our Hometown Traveller feature, but now that travel has resumed, we invite readers to share their travel stories and adventures. Ideal...
Dear editor:
A dark cloud has been lifted from Niagara-on-the-Lake.
After four years of constant criticism and a lack of communication with the town, smearing of...
Farming is a tough business.
Long, long hours, back-breaking work, many large expenses over which you have little control.
Plus there are rules and regulations imposed...
Brain injuries affected thousands of military personnel who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Most involved blast injuries and concussions and left those affected with cognitive...
This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry to Barry Sharpless, Morten Meldal and Carolyn Bertozzi was a work of art in science.
It was a beautiful, elegant...
Dear editor:
Sadly, Kevin McCabe’s letter to the editor, “Some Black cemetery gravestones were taken by locals” (The Lake Report, Nov. 3), is probably true.
My...
Dear editor:
Our small town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is awash with practising and retired professionals from a broad cross-section of disciplines.
Our municipal government needs to pick their...
