"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.
Dear editor:
I join with others in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Over a century ago, Bahá’u’lláh, in clear and unmistakable language,...
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I'd like to remind your readers to send their questions for FocusNOTL's all-candidate Meet & Greet sessions to notlelection2022@cogeco.ca.
This is a great opportunity...
Despite hundreds of studies, no one knows what causes long COVID.
The symptoms are real enough, debilitating fatigue, loss of energy, headaches, difficulties concentrating and...
Dear editor:
As the chair of the Chautauqua Residents Association, I wanted to take a moment to thank our wonderful community for coming together for...
Dear editor:
Regarding the Sept. 8 letter from Leslie Moulson, ("Site for candidate debates is not easily accessible"), we fully understand the issue with accessibility...
Nothing is constant where empires, nations, borders and governments are concerned.
That’s certainly been true for China and much of the rest of the world...
There isn’t much I remember about the church of my childhood except stuffy, will-they-ever-end church services, my Sunday school teacher, who preferred talking about...
By way of full disclosure, in addition to Irish, Welsh, English and French contributors, my family lineage includes Seneca and Mississauga ancestors.
But, even if...
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Most, if not all, road traffic studies across both North America and Europe conclude that roundabouts are far more sustainable than traffic lights...
The relentless manufacturing of clothing contributes to water shortages, pollution and climate change.
Luckily, sustainable trends like visible mending, buying second-hand and textile recycling...
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Absent among most of our current elected officials are the following traits: strong leadership, decision-making, achievers and problem-solving.
From my viewpoint and my engineering and...
Dear editor:
A big thank you to our Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum staff and volunteers for organizing Saturday’s polo matches on the Commons.
We appreciated all the work that was...
Dear editor:
A Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake advertisement in The Lake Report on Sept. 8 listing candidates running for the position of District School Board of...
Dear editor:
Our daughter, Ishani Ayona Pal, who is six years old, organized a lemonade and popcorn stand in our front yard in Niagara-on-the-Lake on...
We live in the so-called Information Age, where information is knowledge, is currency, is power.
Our political and other leaders also like to tell us...
It was surely a slow news weekend, despite the 50th anniversary stories reminding us of the society-altering 1972 Munich Olympic tragedy and the Canada-altering...
