"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 initially wanted to refrain from making any comments about the self-proclaimed "freedom convoy."
I've had enough. I woke up one morning thinking about what...
According to the brilliant Cambridge physicist and mathematician Paul Dirac, Albert Einstein was the most brilliant physicist of the 20th century, and possibly all...
The following is a letter sent to Premier Doug Ford and Housing Minister Steve Clark.
The recently released Housing Affordability Task Force report could only have been...
Dear editor:
I would like to thank Tony Baldinelli for his opinion piece, ("Invoking the Emergencies Act was not justified, Baldinelli says," Feb. 24, Lake Report),...
Dear editor:
This letter is to the Queen Street Litterbug.
Dear Litterbug: On our daily walks we frequently walk along Queen Street next to the golf course...
Dear editor:
Over the past several weeks, we have witnessed protests and blockades take place at multiple international border crossings and in downtown Ottawa.
While citizens have...
Dear editor:
Throughout my life I have always had a tremendous respect for the front-line responders.
I guess that is because my sister was a registered...
Dear editor:
Congratulations to you and The Lake Report staff on so many well-deserved journalism honours in the Ontario Community Newspapers Association's Better Newspaper Competition.
From everything...
Dear editor:
As I watched the "Freedom Convoy" trucks stop at the Husky Travel Centre here in Niagara-on-the-Lake some days ago, I felt very angry that they would adopt...
Dear editor:
Kip Voege’s letter, “Nothing wrong with existing town gateway” published in the Feb. 10 edition of The Lake Report is the most common sense...
Isn’t it sweet and simple to live in a town without too much choice?
It may seem presumptuous, but our municipality’s name isn’t Niagara-on-Lake Ontario,...
Dear editor:
CDM = constipated decision-making; the inability to make a final decision and move on to implementation.
I am a resident of St. Davids and I have...
Dear editor:
I am writing in response to Jean O'Malley's letter ("Rainbow crosswalk may happen but residents deserve input on location") in the Feb. 10 edition...
Dear editor:
Thank you for the article, "Roundabout is safest alternative for St. Davids, region's expert says."
It clearly demonstrates to me what I have feared...
