"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.
This letter was sent to Paul MacIntyre, vice-president of operations for Vintage Hotels. A copy was submitted to The Lake Report for publication.
Dear Mr. MacIntyre:
The purpose...
Dear editor:
A Vancouver think tank recently recommended that all homes over $1 million should have a new tax levied on their sale in order to tackle...
Dear editor:
While Canadians are generous to charities, especially during times of crisis, it is difficult to keep that going for two years during a...
The following letter was sent to members of town council:
It is my understanding that the existing well-designed Queen and Mississauga street entrance was created so the...
Dear editor:
I am very disappointed that the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake seems hellbent on pushing through a rainbow crosswalk and five rainbow benches, thus singling out...
Niagara-on-the-Lake regional Coun. Gary Zalepa seems to have made up his mind that a roundabout is the best thing for the main intersection in St. Davids.
But...
Dear editor:
What probably 99 per cent of the "truckers" demonstrating for their "rights" in Ottawa are ignoring is that they have all been vaccinated and...
Dear editor:
Thanks you so much for your Jan. 27 editorial, "Time to shut down maskless ‘alternative learning’ school."
I am a retired secondary school teacher...
Dear editor:
Thank you for your investigative journalism Jan. 27 on the operation of the Niagara Alternative Learning Alliance in Virgil, "50 children attending maskless, non-distanced 'learning...
Dear editor:
Thank you for your forthright editorial Jan. 27 on Virgil's pod school. Yes, it should be closed down now.
The children pictured may well be...
It is shocking to learn of an unregulated, private “alternative learning” pod school operating in our community, flying in the face of COVID protocols.
As we...
Warning: The following contains graphic language and disturbing thoughts. Anyone who gets queasy at the thought of blood, shattered bones and even death, should not read...
Dear editor:
Like most citizens of Niagara-on-the-Lake, I tend to read the newspaper and chuckle at the ridiculous comments and opinions that abound in the Old...
Far too often when the term “affordable housing” is used, our minds draw an equivalent to the subsidized housing projects that proliferated across this...
In biology, structure dictates function.
That’s certainly the case with protein-encoding genes: the sequence of bases in a specific gene dictates the sequence of bases in...
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Special to The Lake Report
Members of the Lord Mayor's Youth Advisory Council are especially excited this year to again play a part in helping our...
We love roundabouts. They are safe, efficient and keep traffic moving.
Anyone who has driven in Europe or the United Kingdom knows that roundabouts (aka...
