Letters & Op-Ed, July 27 2022
The poor pay taxes too
There is nothing wrong with sharing the wealth and it is very laudable for David Fowler to want to share...
COMMON DECENCY | 43 Group fought fire with fire to avoid greater conflagration
For a column that is essentially about my late father, it might seem slightly odd to begin with a blunt political statement. But here...
Letters & Op-Ed, July 20 2022
Kudos to Welland Hospital ER
Saturday, after going to a Pelham walk-in clinic (online hours differed from note on the door), then a Seaway Mall...
COMMON DECENCY | On the brink of conservatism that’s divorced from facts
Political conservatism has come a long way. But in the spirit of the word and the ideology, that doesn’t signify progress. In fact, the...
COMMON DECENCY | Compassion, not ideology, for assisted dying
A recent survey revealed that the majority of people believe in a controlled, supervised, and extremely limited form of assisted dying for those who...
Letters & Op-Ed, July 13 2022
There’s nothing wrong with sharing the wealth
I found it difficult to understand why Andrew Watts would get bent out of shape with the...
EDITORIAL | Time to end the turbulence at the NCDRA
With respect to vision and governance, the Niagara Central Dorothy Rungeling Airport (NCDRA), a.k.a. Pelham’s aerodrome along River Road, is a bit of a...
COMMON DECENCY | The curtains may draw, but the magic never ends
When my daughter Lucy was a tiny child, just turned four years old, I took her to see The Nutcracker, in Toronto, that annual...
Letters & Op-Ed, July 6 2022
New Arches present a rainbow of opportunities
There are now so many towns that have Rainbow crosswalks. In the Town of Pelham we have four...
Letters & Op-Ed, June 29 2022
Kore, Haun owe Mayor an apology
I could not believe what I witnessed while watching last week’s Town Council meeting this weekend on YouTube. Councillor...