"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.
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As more people are accommodated in the town, all the advantages they came for are disappearing: a local clinic/hospital, schools, retirement homes.
This is surely...
During my speaking engagements on Canadian architecture, one of the questions I’m most often asked is, “Do you have a favourite architectural style?”
Although I...
Penny-Lynn Cookson
Special to The Lake Report
As time and space coalesce, how will we remember these COVID-19 days, weeks, months?
Will we despair of time lost...
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With all the political pre-election campaigning and posturing by Justin Trudeau, the proposed border reopening on Aug. 9 not only could be scuttled by the U.S. government...
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I was not aware until recently that traditional marriage is under threat (" ‘Traditional marriage’ sign decried as homophobic, hateful," The Lake Report, July 8).
Same...
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I just can’t help but comment further on the now infamous Niagara-on-the-Lake gateway project.
It is a bit difficult to tell for sure from the...
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Here we go again, chosen as citizen of the year for 2018, but, more importantly, a real estate developer, Rainer Hummel is again trying...
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I can no longer stay silent.
The absolutely ridiculous directions that we find ourselves going are too many to name, but there is one that...
The "open court" principle in Canada ensures that regular folks, the public, can trust that judicial matters are carried out fairly and openly, without...
Over the last two weeks, this column has raised the issue of managing Niagara-on-the-Lake’s development and the role of design review guidelines.
For those who...
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Growing up on a fruit farm with every type of peaches, plums, pears, cherries, strawberries and whatever Mom and Grandma grew in their gardens,...
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Further to Brian Marshall's July 8 Arch-i-text column, "NOTL must take control of development," the former Parliament Oak school should be a school and...
Dear editor:
All residents of Niagara-on-the-Lake and, indeed, the Niagara region benefit from open borders with the United States.
It is probably correct to say that...
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In 1986, Ontario designated the Queen/Picton area of Niagara-on-the-Lake as a heritage conservation district and in 2003 the area was designated a hational historic...
