Sinbad to Entertain Audiences in May at Fallsview Casino

From a Marketwire press release: The May concert line-up at Fallsview Casino gets off to a great start with two shows by stand-up comedian Sinbad on May 6 & 7. The Michigan native began his career in the late 1980s as a television actor including a self-titled sitcom series. Sinbad has a number of feature…

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Valet parking outsourced at Hilton in Falls

From the Niagara Falls Review: More than 70 workers who provide valet and parking services at the Hilton Hotel in Niagara Falls will be out of work on April 30. The employees, some of whom have worked at the hotel for more than 10 years, were notified by letter this week that their jobs will…

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New Sea Lions at the Aquarium

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: The critter count has grown by two as the Aquarium of Niagara has welcomed two new sea lions into their family. The young females were each found stranded under similar circumstances on a beach and rescued by the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, California back in 2009.

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Big Becky to surface this spring

From the Niagara Falls Review: After four years of underground burrowing, Big Becky is about to surface near Niagara Falls. Big Becky is the nicknmame of the tunnel-boring machine digging a 10-km tunnel under the city of Niagara Falls that will bring more water to the Sir Adam Beck hydroelectric generators. “If all goes well,…

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Hostels in Lisbon, Montreal, Niagara Falls win 9th annual Hoscar awards

From Yahoo! Canada News: The best hostels in the world are in Lisbon, according to voters for the annual Hoscar awards, who also singled out hostels in Montreal and Niagara Falls, Ont., as being the best in North America. Travellers House, located in the centre of Lisbon, was named best overall — praised in recent…

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The Niagara Power Project turns 50

From the Buffalo News: A small army of men and machines moved into Niagara Falls and Lewiston half a century ago to build the $720 million Niagara Power Project that forever changed the face of the lower Niagara River gorge and ignited unending debate over the project itself, the allocation of electricity and the project’s…

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‘Our interests are … closely aligned:’ Nicholson

From the Niagara Falls Review: The new agreement on border co-operation between Canada and the U.S., announced Friday by the two countries’ leaders, is a continuation of the existing relationship rather than the start of something radically new, says Canada’s Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, the MP for Niagara Falls. “Some of that process has already…

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Casino entertainment centre talks ‘ramp up’

From the Niagara Falls Review: More star power and a bigger theatre in Niagara Falls could boost tourism, create jobs and give Niagarans a better chance of getting tickets to the entertainers who perform at the Fallsview Casino, says Mayor Jim Diodati. Encouraging the construction of a 7,000-seat entertainment centre will be one of city…

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