"A&M are pumping their latest project. It’s a whopper. If the sisters get their way with local politicians (once again), the old Rand Estate will turn into a five-storey, 111-room luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel," writes Garth Turner.
"Should any future council enact an interim control bylaw, underwritten by a duly compliant study, it will be largely legally unassailable," writes Brian Marshall.
"Niagara-on-the-Lake should not be treated as an extension of a 'Vegas North' casino economy. We are not a desert entertainment strip," writes Keith McNenly.
"I have heard that during his 26 years as mayor, Henry Paffard advocated for the planting of over 1,000 trees. By any measure, that’s a lot of limbs and leaves and shade and oxygen. And with trees come squirrels," writes Ross Robinson.
"Regardless of differences of opinion over development projects, I recognize that public discourse should be conducted respectfully and without casting aspersions on others," writes Stewart Hall.
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...
????Tannin Driedger-Bradshaw
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...
Dear editor:
I have read the article regarding the proposed municipal accommodation tax in the Jan. 6 edition of The Lake Report, "Owner-occupied rentals cited as...
Dear editor:
When Niagara-on-the-Lake residents speak out about development plans that they find inappropriate, it's not because they are scared of progress.
We once were a...
Dr. Kathryn Belicki
Special to The Lake Report
Here we go again: another year, another variant. But this feels like we’re right back at the beginning of...
Dear editor:
In order for your readers to appreciate your published survey in its full context, ("Residents split on idea of rainbow crosswalk, Lake Report survey...
