From the Niagara Falls Review: First of all, congratulations to Niagara Parks Commissioners for voting in favour of opening their meetings to the public and the media. Quite a novel idea for public lands, we guess. Vince Kerrio made the motion that was supported by his colleagues. This was the right thing to do and…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission wants to go public. After 124 years of meeting in private, commissioners voted unanimously Friday to open their doors to the public and the media. “I made a motion at the parks commission today that the meetings, in the spirit of openness and transparency … be…
From the Niagara Falls Review: More than 3,000 supporters are expected to line the route along the Niagara River Parkway Sunday as the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay arrives in Niagara Falls. To celebrate the arrival of the flame, the city is hosting a free community event starting at 5:30 p. m. near Table Rock…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Fewer Americans came to visit Canada in October than in September, while the number of Canadians travelling to the United States was up slightly the same month, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Travel by U. S. residents to Canada fell 2.6% to 1.6 million in October, compared to…
From the Niagara Falls Review: After writing half a dozen news stories about the $750,000 rink, it was time to see firsthand if the new ice is all it’s cracked up to be. (Check out the video tour of the rink on The Review’s website). Having grown up near Ottawa’s famous Rideau Canal, the world’s…
Smashing Apps has a blog posting which features slow shutter speed photography: …we have piled up dazzling slow shutter speed photos that will take your breath away. Using slow shutter speed photography can be a totally different phenomenon if you get it right. You can use it to inspire others, or to capture light painting,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The U. S.-based auto racing giant NASCAR says it is not in the business of building race tracks -and unless one has already been built, don’t bother asking how it might get involved. Asked about the possibility of the organization expanding into Canada or being involved in some way with…
From Niagara This Week: The Stanley Cup is coming to Niagara Falls. A slogan for the event being passed around the city is “two icons, one location.” The Hockey Hall of Fame put together a package specifically for the 27th year of the Niagara Falls Winter Festival of Lights at the Rink on the Brink…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The way Ontario Tourism Minister Monique Smith wants to tender the right to run boat tours on the Niagara River will harm the Niagara Parks Commission, Niagara Falls’ tourism industry and tourism provincewide, says former Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams. He’s not going quietly after resigning his $250-a-day government-…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Jim Williams stepped down as Niagara Parks Commission chairman Thursday over a dispute with Tourism Minister Monique Smith’s support for him, and over his “grave concerns” about an historic bidding process she ordered that could see the Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co., replaced as operator of boat tours on…