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st catharines (earl irons,ontario), 5 days ago

City planner testifies he often breaks out in a "cold sweat at 3 a.m. attempting to determine what I can support for the good of the community.”

Who can blame him?
Port place - for that panicky feeling

Welland (Jim Ebsary,ON), 6 days ago

Re:She reads horses' minds; Aurora woman claims to have the gift, the Standard, May 5

What a disappointing article. It’s a pity the reporter didn’t apply some critical thinking and skepticism to this story– maybe explain to readers to perhaps think critically about mind-readers, faith healers, homeopaths, and other assorted snake oil salesmen. You know – write something useful.<.... If mind-reading is to be accepted, it needs to be supported with evidence. To be clear – that’s the mind-readers job to provide evidence, not ours. Then (and this is the bit the mind-readers and other charlatans want to avoid), they need to let other people examine their evidence for holes, to try to prove it false. What’s left standing after this process has a reasonable chance of being true. That’s how real scientists do it. Even Einstein and Hawkings had to change some of their views after others proved them wrong.

In a written forum (such as the James Randi Educational Foundation forum, or comments posted to skeptical blogs), mind-readers and other charlatans have nowhere to hide: their rhetorical tricks and lack of evidence for their claims can be easily exposed.

And, by the way, thank you to Lauren Bode for using your super telepathic powers for good instead of evil. When will she be doing astrology predictions and tarot card reading for the horses?

St. Catharines (Gloria Price,Ontario), 7 days ago

I am all for buying local produce, but it is difficult to find, and even harder to find organic local produce. If your paper finds a good source, please tell us about it. For our health and peace of mind I will choose imported organics over local conventionally grown produce.

Ridgeway (ROB,Ontario), 10 days ago

WHILE IN PORT DALHOUSIE ON A JOB THE OTHER DAY, I NOTICED THE FLAGS ON THE CORNER OF MURPHY'S HARBOURFRONT INN WERE INCORRECTY HUNG. WITH THE AMERICAN FLAG HANGING ON THE LEFT, WHILE THE CANADIAN ONE WAS ON THE RIGHT.

LOOKING CLOSER I WAS EVEN MORE ASTOUNDED TO SEE THAT THE CANADIAN FLAG WAS NOT ONLY HUNG ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT WAS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN!

... EVEN STRANGER IS THE FACT THAT MURPHY'S IS LOCATED RIGHT ACROSS FROM A BRANCH OF THE CANADIAN LEGION.

THE OWNER HAS BEEN INFORMED ABOUT THE SITUATION, BUT I WONDER IF WHEN I GO BACK NEXT WEEK IF IT WILL HAVE BEEN FIXED. STAY TUNED.

St. Catharines (James C.,Ontario), 17 days ago

Does it appear to anyone else, to be poor taste in having a side banner advertisement on the Standard's Obiturary webpage "Sexy Singles"? Just wondering if I am being overly sensitive to what is acceptable ad placement.
James

St. Catharines (Kathy Pennington,Ontario), 18 days ago

Monique Beech did a excellent job covering the MTO meeting last night and making the public aware of the McCalla Dr. traffic, Linden St. contruction vehicles and the Spruce St. Pond/Gorge

St. Catharines (Commentariat,Ontario), 18 days ago

The City of St. Catharines claimed that 2008’s property tax hike will be 3.07%, yet our inflation rate is half of that, while our population has hardly increased. So why is municipal spending increasing at twice the inflation rate?

According to the St. Catharines-Thorold Chamber of Commerce, because of the way the 2007 surplus is being handled, the 2008 tax increase is actually closer to 6.8% - or FIVE times the inflation rate!

Mayor McMullan, this isn’t acceptable.

I agree with the St. Catharines Standard’s April 16 editorial: “there is, after all, only one taxpayer”, and governments need to learn not to outspend our resources.

The Standard’s Apr. 24 editorial regarding gas prices, on the other hand, seemed to me as nothing more than a partisan propaganda piece.

“Ottawa lacks the will to act on gas prices”, was the Standard’s premise in this slanted piece of sub-standard editorial populism. Nothing like riling up the proletariat with some good old oil-profit bashing!

The loss of “will to act” on gas prices can be equally attributed to Premier McGuinty’s Liberals - who have clearly done nothing whatsoever since their 2003 election regarding “sky-rocketing” gas prices!

McGuinty claimed in opposition that Ontario does have jurisdiction to control gas prices.

Yet, do-nothing Liberals have done nothing for five years now, as prices doubled under their rule - and the Standard has done little in calling them up on it.

The Standard’s latest editorial claims “there is room here for relief”, yet neglects to ask what “relief” tax-happy-McGuinty is providing.

The Standard fails to mention the gas-control private member’s bill introduced by MPP Jim Bradley with such pomp while in opposition; the majority Liberal government has now had FIVE YEARS to resurrect and easily implement it. (Unless, of course, they were never really serious about it in the first place! Any answers, Jim?)

The editorial neglects to mention any reference to this province’s Transportation Minister - Jim Bradley is the MPP in the Standard’s own city, and the Standard can’t (or won’t?) provide any comment from this minister, let alone criticism?

Has the Standard already forgotten their earlier “there is only one taxpayer” principle when it involves questioning what solutions McGuinty and Bradley bring to the table?

Remember, when the feds did cut the GST across the board, Stephane Dion’s Liberals immediately whined and wanted it raised!

Is the Standard suggesting more federal tax-cuts, while McGuinty gets to keep his preposterously-high PST untouched?! The Standard’s one-sided editorial didn’t ‘have the will’ to ask McGuinty to reduce his PST across the board!

Noting that the GST is 10 cents per litre, while Ontario’s gas tax is 14.7 cents, the Standard failed to ask McGuinty to correspondingly cut his gas taxes!

And, if the feds do cut gas taxes even more, as the Standard suggests, will the Standard then tell McGuinty to subsequently cease his constant whining and begging Ottawa for more money?

Will the Standard remind McGuinty that there is, after all, only one taxpayer?

st catharines (earl irons,ontario), 19 days ago

About the theatre chapman says they wanted stronger promise but "they didn’t have jurisdiction to demand more".
Good thing not everybody is gullible like the average towerista.
Port place - beyond parody, based on promises

Abbotsford (Kerry Friesen,B.C.), 19 days ago

Re:-Police make $140K pot bust
Your reference to a CZ-858 rifle being commonly known as an AK-47 misleads the reader, implying the accused had a prohibited weapon. The CZ-858 is in fact not a prohibited weapon. This type of reporting shows a gross lack of knowledge fictional creation by the reporter. Printing of such erroneous material leads one to question the integrity of the paper.

Newspaper Reply Thank you for pointing out the error. It has been corrected and we are following up to make sure such errors don't occur in future.

Halifax (J Graveline,NS), 19 days ago

Re: Police make $140K pot bust, you make reference to the CZ858 and refer to it as a "semi automatic assault rifle, commonly known as an AK-47". If the media is to have any credibilty and respect, it must get the facts straight. The CZ858 is, in fact, a semi-automatic rifle, which means it fires a single round with every pull of the trigger. This function disqualifies it as an assault rifle, which would be an automatic (which continues to fire until the trigger is released). Though sharing a somewhat similar appearance, the CZ858 is in no way related to the AK47. The CZ858 is a rifle built for sporting purposes, including target shooting and hunting. The AK47, which is an assault rifle, is used for military and para-military purposes.

If this apples/oranges comparison was simply a case of a reporting staff not doing their fact checking, you should revisit basic journalisitc practices. If, on the other hand, the intent was to 'spice up' and sensationalize the article by trying to make a commonly available sporting rifle, owned and used responsibly by thousands of Canadians, sound 'more evil', you are sacrificing your integrity and ethical standards for readership. Either way, you are doing your readers a disservice and owe us an immediate clarification.