"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.
Last Wednesday afternoon, I suddenly became a member of the COVID-19 in-crowd.
After just over two years of listening to medical statistics, watching Dr. Theresa...
Dear editor:
I am writing regarding the proposed development of the Stone Eagle Winery, ("Councillors question size and height of new winery," The Lake Report,...
Dear editor:
I appreciated Robert Bader’s letter on the housing supply problem that our communities are facing' ("There is no housing supply problem. There's a social...
Dear editor:
I want to say thank you to everyone. Ukraine has been helped because of you.
Because reporter Evan Saunders and The Lake Report took the time...
Dear editor:
So Premier Doug Ford declared the pandemic over?
Then he reduced and limited testing so the true numbers of infections would be hidden. Next, he discontinued contact...
Beginning in Africa several million years ago, mammoths reached much of Eurasia, and eventually 20,000 years ago, the Americas.
Some mammoths developed a rich covering...
Dear editor:
While it is heartening to see so many Niagara-on-the-Lake residents continuing to wear face masks, I feel we should also be grateful for those "canaries"...
Dear editor:
Contrary to what Premier Doug Ford, Housing Minister Steve Clark and the real estate and development industry maintains, housing is not a supply problem. It...
Dear editor:
Saturday night, while driving down Queen Street, I was amazed at a new shopping plaza being built behind many old homes along Gate Street.
As someone...
Dear editor:
Saturday night, while driving down Queen Street, I was amazed at a new shopping plaza being built behind many old homes along Gate Street.
As someone...
It’s a nice thing when stories have happy endings.
So we were happy to learn that the Niagara Alternative Learning Alliance has taken steps to become...
From time to time I come across information about Niagara-on-the-Lake that makes me sit back, scratch my head and wonder.
Take, for example, William Street....
Pruning roses seems to be one of those many mysteries of gardening.
If you have roses, you probably know they require some pruning to keep them healthy,...
Dear editor:
I am writing in response to the letter from Paulette Kennedy regarding noise from "open pipe" motorcycles, (The Lake Report, March 24).
Her solution...
