Thank You For Supporting Niagara At Large This Past Year With Your Visits to the Site and Please Encourage As Many Others As Can To Do The Same.
From Doug Draper At Niagara At Large
Posted December 20th, 2024
It has been a difficult and challenging year in our Niagara region and in so many other strife-torn regions around the world.
Here in Niagara, we have witnessed a regional council pass – just in time for Christmas – yet another annual property tax hike that is well above the rate of inflation and is bound to make life more difficult for residents already struggling to buy groceries and pay for their other bills.
We have also scene developers continue to pave away on ever more of what is left of our green space with the blessing of municipal and provincial leaders and we have mourned the loss of some of our most passionate advocates for protecting and preserving what is left of our urban and natural heritage. And the list goes on.
Another war-torn Christmas in Ukraine
Around the world, conflicts continue to wreak havoc and destroy the lives of tens-of-thousands of people in Ukraine, in the Middle East and in too many other places.
Layered on of all that, the climate crisis grows worse with record-setting temperatures, droughts, wild-fires, flooding and wind storms while too many of our political leaders at all levels of government continue to do little or nothing to address what is very much an existential threat to our lives and to the future of all life on this planet.
With that we, the people, cannot and must not stop pushing for positive change.
One of NAL’s favorite Holiday Season photos of Tigger the cat, who has been gone for almost five years now but who became a huge fan of many at the Pet Valu Store at the Pine Plaza in Thorold/Niagara. Photo by one of his very best friends, Joe Krawchuk
The Holiday Season, however, is a time for a pause, for gathering with members of our family and friends, and as we face the New Year, for taking stock of what we need to do as people and communities, to make life better for all.
Sorry I could not be more cheery but I do wish you all a warm and peaceful Holiday Season, and thank you for supporting Niagara At Large by visiting it at www.niagaraatlarge.com . Please encourage as many other people in your circle of life to become Niagara At Large visitors too.
I leave you with a Holiday Season song by John Lennon that is a relevant now as when he wrote it more than five decades ago. To hear and watch it on video, click on the screen immediately below –
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All the best, Doug Draper, Niagara At Large
Let’s All Pledge to do do everything we can as individuals and communities to, in a humane and caring way, help the hungry and homeless in the year to come.- D.D.
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Thank you Doug for keeping these items in the limelight. Hopefully more people become aware at what is happening at the municipal and Regional level and get out and VOTE when the time comes. On one hand we are fighting for the so called homeless. There are those that are drug addicted and have mental health issues and then there is the homeless. People , some with families that are working at low paying jobs and have lost their homes as they can’t afford them any longer . Pay rent/mortgage or eat??
Keep up the good work. This is one news site that brings out the truth.
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