From Niagara This Week: Kelly’s coming back, and she’s bringing Ryan with her. Kelly Ripa and newly minted co-host Ryan Seacrest will be in Niagara Falls on June 5 to tape a pair of episodes of Live! With Kelly and Ryan. “It’s great news,” Mayor Jim Diodati said. “We’ve been working on it for quite…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Will a new hotel tax the province has granted municipalities power to impose replace the notorious Destination Marketing Fee in Niagara Falls? There were lots of guesses after Thursday’s provincial budget, but not much clarification. Even Mayor Jim Diodati is unsure just what the new tax is, and what it…
From Niagara This Week: More information on a measure that would allow municipalities to institute a hotel room tax is needed before what that may mean for Niagara Falls can be determined, says Mayor Jim Diodati. “I’d be very interested to learn more,” Diodati said Friday morning while attending a tree planting at Lions Park…
From CHCH TV: To mark Canada’s 150 birthday on July 1st, the city of Niagara Falls will host 150 different events throughout the year. The city expects this year’s tourism season to be one of their best, but the challenge is to keep visitors here longer.
Wow… it doesn’t matter what side of the river you are on, everyone seems to be concerned about casino revenue and related jobs! From the Niagara Falls Review: The day after the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation started a process to find new operators for Casino Niagara and the Fallsview Casino, a delegate from Niagara…
From Niagara This Week: The province is moving ahead with the modernization process for gaming in the city after the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) issued request for proposal (RFP) documents to pre-qualified proponents selected to bid on the Niagara Gaming Bundle.
From the Niagara Falls Review: The president of Ryerson University has apologized to Niagara Falls Mayor Jim Diodati for a student film depicting the city in a harsh light. The four-minute documentary As Niagara Falls is listed as a “Ryerson University Production” on the Facebook page of its student filmmakers, known collectively as Mayday Pictures….
From the National Post: It took Russell Phipps just one day to sell his three-bedroom, 1,800-sq.-ft. house in Ajax, Ont., after a fierce bidding war. With an early closing and no place yet to live, the Toronto native moved into a friend’s 550-sq.-ft. Corktown condo in the city to give downtown living a try. It…
From the Niagara Falls Review: A new cultural hub announced in Mayor Jim Diodati’s state of the city speech Wednesday would be a “shared gathering space” for the community, and create a vastly improved Sylvia Place Farmer’s Market.
From the St Thomas Times Journal: Niagara’s mayor and regional chairman have asked the province to scrap plans to select new operators for the region’s two casinos. In a letter to Finance Minister Charles Sousa, Mayor Jim Diodati and Niagara Regional Chairman Alan Caslin asked the government to terminate an ongoing request for pre-qualification and…