"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:
In 1969 the Niagara Warriors lacrosse club started playing in the Ontario Junior B lacrosse league.
Historic Warriors lacrosse names such as Conradi, Ignatczyk,...
Canadian physical education teacher and sports innovator James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 as an alternative to the injury-prone game of football. He was...
Dear editor:
I’d like to say that I am extremely honoured to have received the Lord Mayor’s Volunteer Award for diversity, equity and inclusion, a sentiment that...
In the built-heritage field the term “rehabilitation” is generally a reference to work performed on a historic house which returns the dwelling to a...
We asked readers for their suggestions regarding what should happen to the old Niagara-on-the-Lake hospital site. With its prime location and history in town,...
We have written many times about how Niagara-on-the-Lake's community volunteers are the backbone of this very special town.
Without the hard work, whether in the...
After two weeks of negotiation, all 197 countries participating in the 26th United Nations Conference of Parties (COP26), an annual meeting to address climate change, agreed...
Can you believe it's only four weeks until Christmas?
There I said it – now, let the panic begin.
Hopefully, you are not feeling panicked at all. It’s...
Dear editor:
Racism is inexcusable in any context.
As residents of over 15 years in Niagara-on-the-Lake, my wife, who was Black, and I experienced racism here but we...
Good news: Newark Neighbours, the food bank and thrift store that has been a community fixture in Niagara-on-the-Lake for 50 years, is expanding, having...
Dear editor:
On Saturday, Nov. 13, the neighbourhood of Chautauqua, and Niagara-on-the-Lake as a whole, lost one of its oldest and longest-serving residents.
The massive oak that...
Dear editor:
Sometimes it is simply a pleasure to write a letter to the editor congratulating him, his newspaper and contributing staff on their great efforts...
Dear editor:
Curiosity got the better of me and I just had to know more about Niagara-on-the-Lake’s history.
So, four years ago, I went to the source and put...
Dear editor:
Many residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake will be clearly pleased to learn of the withdrawal by Solmar Development of its opposition to the heritage designation by...
