From CTV News: The birth of the royal baby isn’t just a major affair for Brits. Commonwealth countries like Canada and New Zealand will also fete the arrival of the littlest heir at major landmarks such as Niagara Falls and the Kiwi Sky tower. In Toronto, Canada, the public will learn about the sex of the…
From Macleans.ca: The following sequence unfolds each and every time a Canadian broadcaster announces it will reproduce an American reality TV series: there’s buzz and build-up and vows to submit an application, followed by lameness and let-down and a national handwringing. The person who wrote this article was not impressed by the choice of the…
I have to admit that I’ve never heard of this show, but apparently the W Network in Canada has a show called “Come Dine With Me Canada”. A few weeks ago I saw an ad in Niagara This Week with information about how to apply to be on an episode that will be based in…
Macleans is a Canadian magazine (similar to Time or Newsweek). I’m not sure if this is a yearly feature, but at least twice now they’ve had a feature around Canada Day celebrating what is great about Canada. I was browsing through the magazine yesterday and #59 relates directly to Niagara Falls:
From the Tonawanda News: Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars are heading to Niagara Falls for a movie shoot. Multiple media outlets in Wilmington, N.C., reported this week that local filming has wrapped on a movie called “Tammy,” which features Oscar-winner Susan Sarandon, Melissa McCarthy, Dan Akroyd and Kathy Bates.
Speaking of Nik Wallenda… Every week I download the podcast for NPR‘s Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! It is a news quiz that is usually quite funny. Each week there is some kind of famous person on to play part of the game. A couple of weeks ago Nik Wallenda was on to talk about his walk across the…
From WIVB channel 4 in Buffalo: …Wallenda, who crossed the Niagara Falls last summer, is planning to take a piece of his Falls walk with him for an upcoming project. Wallenda is planning to use the rope from his walk across the Niagara Falls when he crosses the Grand Canyon…
From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: Hollywood is invading Niagara Falls. Actor Ryan Reynolds and Rosario Dawson are going to be filming the movie “Queen of the Night.” I know this is old news, but I saw the contradiction and wanted to point it out. Both the headline and the first sentence indicate that Ryan…
You probably saw this, but on December 28, 2012 the Google logo on their search web site was changed to honour the 160th birthday of Leonardo Torres-Quevedo, the designer of the Whirlpool Aero Car (formerly Spanish Aero Car). You can read more about it in Niagara This Week’s article called Google celebrates Niagara aero car…
From the Niagara Falls Review (includes video): If you could capture the essence of Niagara Falls in a bottle, what would it smell like? “I envisioned a water scent. Something really fresh and clean,” said Alayna D’Angelo, owner of World Class Fragrance on Fallsview Blvd. Recently, her company unveiled Niagara Myst, a fragrance idea created…