From the Toronto Star: Tucked between Screamers House of Horrors, a $12.95 prime rib special and a slew of motels with heart-shaped Jacuzzis is a near-empty parking lot where the attendants, on the first Saturday in June, are parked on lawn chairs. The odd vehicle cruises by on the once-gridlocked main drag. Mike Piccirillo, who…
This is old news (I posted here and here about this in February), but CNN recently posted a video segment about Smooshie the walrus at Marineland. You can also see more videos on AOL Video and YouTube.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara’s tourism industry let out a collective sigh of relief over the weekend in light of the latest delay in the controversial passport issue. The U.S. government Friday voted overwhelmingly to delay implementing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) until at least the summer of 2009. The plan had been…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Hotel and restaurant workers from across Ontario marched through Niagara Falls Saturday. Protesters ended the march with a rally in front of the Sheraton on the Falls hotel, owned by Canadian Niagara Hotels. UNITE HERE, the labour union representing hourly employees at three Canadian Niagara Hotels properties, has been in…