"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.
Dear editor:
Residents for Sustainable Tourism is pleased that the Niagara-on-the-Lake council has approved a municipal accommodation tax to be considered by the finance committee for 2022.
The...
Dear editor:
I read with interest your reporting of town council's latest deliberations over the introduction of a municipal accommodation tax in NOTL, "Town passes controversial hotel...
Dear editor:
Samuel Young's diatribe ("More promises to be broken on seniors benefits," letter, The Lake Report, Sept.9) against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals is...
Dear editor:
I am writing today to call out the misinformation being spread by Conservatives across the country about home equity taxes.
The Conservatives are spreading...
Dear editor:
The new no parking signage with increased fines of $150 posted near Ryerson Park and along Niagara Boulevard really is working as far as I...
Sometimes, a rare disease can teach us a lot about treating more common diseases.
Such is the case for a disease called transthyretin amyloidosis, which...
We asked readers for their memories of 9/11, two decades afterward, and are publishing a selection of their recollections this week and next.
Elizabeth Masson
Special...
Dear editor:
Some thoughts for possible NDP or Green party voters, and undecideds, in the Sept. 20 federal election. I will vote Liberal, but, for others,...
Dear editor:
This letter is in response to 13-year-old Morgan Mitchell's front-page opinion piece, "Four Mile Creek neglected by conservation authority," published on Aug. 19.
One...
Dear editor:
Attention all seniors: It's election time and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the great snake oil salesman (like we used to see in the old western...
Dear editor:
I would like to make several comments in response to Sean Parkinson's Aug. 19 letter, "There’s little support for the queer community in Niagara."
The stated conclusion...
Joanne Young
Special to The Lake Report
Are you thinking of adding some new gardens or extending any existing gardens this fall?
I am often asked if they...
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...
Dear editor:
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...
Dear editor:
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...
