Niagara At Large Will Be Back This June 18th

A Note from Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper

The memory of my last evening walk on a Cape Cod beach this spring is washing away like footprints in the sand, and I’m back in my native region of the world only to discover – to my dismay, but not too much surprise – that little of what I left here this May has changed.

Last peaceful walk on a beach before the scandals and madness of a world inland from here washes back in. Photo by Doug Draper

Mike Duffy, along with Pamela Wallin and other shameless swine, are still feeding from a trough in a senate that should be abolished, and the Harper government goes on and on supporting all of this. All while high-priced accountants charge Canadian taxpayers more to audit the e papers of these senators than they allegedly pocketed through some crafty reporting of their expenses.

At the provincial level, the gas-plant scandal goes on even as former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty breaks yet another promise to go on serving as an MPP for his Ottawa area riding until the next election. McGuinty announced this June 12 that he is now, which is not so surprising considering the rising number of questions over news that his staff did its best to delete email related to a scandal that has so far cost Ontario taxpayers more than $580 million.

On the Niagara regional front, look forward to the possibility that a critical mass of regional councillors will deem the pilot regional transit system, launched two years ago this coming . That will leave Niagara as the only region of its size or larger in southern Ontario, with no regional transit system – a fact that will further discourage young people from living and working here, businesses from moving here and inter-regional services like GoTrain or Metrolinx from providing further services here.

So given those and so many other issues we face, it is time for Niagara At Large to get back to work as the only truly independent, alternative online voice in the greater Niagara region outside of one or two sites on the American side of the Niagara River.

I have received numerous emails from people over the past four weeks wondering when NAL would get back to work and I have been surprised by the many hundreds of people who have continued to visit the site and comment on aging posts over that same period of time. It encourages me to believe that there is a place for a news and commentary site like this – a site that offers something far more than the usual fair of crime, traffic accident and building fire stories highlighted by mainstream media chains in Niagara.

So thanks for your patience over the past four weeks as we recharge ourselves here and we promise we will be back with some journalism free of the corporate chains that enslave so many others that pass themselves off as sources of news today.

We will have more to say about Niagara At Large’s pledge to remain an independent, non-partisan voice for ordinary people and social justice for all when we return this coming June 18.

We look forward to meeting you back here on this site then.

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