The Lake Report attended a press conference last month with the minister of agriculture and MPP Sam Oosterhoff and questioned them on how they plan to address the concerns of farm workers and advocates.
A United Nations report that found Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program "serves as a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery” is insulting and completely untrue, say two growers who employ migrant workers in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change is highlighting a new report by the United Nations that found “Canada’s immigration systems are a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.”
Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was in Niagara-on-the-Lake Thursday, August 8, making a stump speech at a local food co-operative as part of a campaign-like stop in the community.
The Canadian government should look no further than its own backyard to find what’s wrong with the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, a NOTL farmworkers advocate says.
A controversial severance plan for a historic Queen Street property that was initially approved by the town's planning committee two weeks ago was defeated...
No partially treated NOTL sewage was dumped into Lake Ontario after any of the torrential downpours so far this summer, a senior Niagara Region official says.
Council's planning committee approved draft plans for a proposed subdivision and rezoning for the Konik Estates development in Virgil, headed toward Phase 2.
Independence. Health care. Social relationships. The desires, needs and focus of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s aging populace can be summed up in those three points, according to a comprehensive survey conducted by two leading Canadian researchers.
Strawberries make people happy.
While that may or may not be clinically true, the Strawberry Festival at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Niagara-on-the-Lake on June...
The key to any good relationship is communication.
Jim Collard, the chair of the Niagara Escarpment Commission, couldn’t agree more.
In one of the final acts...
