"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.
Throughout September, volunteers across Canada hope to pick up and recycle more than 1 million cigarette butts.
The Butt Blitz, run by nonprofit A Greener...
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Speaking to the media, Maryam Monsef, the minister for women's and gender equality, last week referred to the Taliban as "our brothers."
Later, when asked about her...
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After reading Conservative MP Tony Baldinelli’s occasional newspaper columns for some time, I find them nothing but thinly veiled attack ads with a...
Richard HarleyKevin MacLean
The Lake Report
Traditionally, Canada’s left-of-centre vote is divided among the Liberals, the NDP and the Greens.
That’s where the whole rhetoric comes from...
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Kudos to Paul McHoull for last week’s letter, ("Historic hotel deserves commemoration,") about the hotel that once stood at Queen's Royal Park and about...
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As we head into another general election, there is an abundance of evidence there are two segments of our population that politicians of all stripes...
Ross Robinson
Special to The Lake Report
Two aging and wily high-level tennis players and two teenaged and upcoming athletes competed fiercely in the opening round...
Unlike simple cells such as archaea and bacteria, viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID) are unable to make copies of themselves without host...
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?In your original article about Virgil resident Rudi Koller's "Celebrating Our Traditional Marriage" sign, (" 'Traditional marriage' lawn sign decried as homophobic, hateful," July 8), he said he...
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For many Niagara residents, the Civic Holiday weekend is an unfortunate milestone.
It’s when some of our Niagara farmers start their practice of using...
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I am writing in response to MP Tony Baldinelli's opinion piece, "The Conservatives have plan to fight climate change" (Aug. 12).
"Human activities are having a real...
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I agree with much of what letter writer Elizabeth Masson has to say about the NOTL gateway project ("Like gateway project, town survey is deeply flawed," Aug. 12)...
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Regarding the new all-way stop and the traffic "bump out" at the intersection of Mississagua and Queen streets, I feel Niagara-on-the-Lake just joined...
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CAA Niagara has come up with an innovative business advertising campaign with the support of its municipal partners, including the Niagara Regional Police.
While...
