From Niagara This Week: The city has secured funding from the province to help with the costs associated with the annual New Year’s Eve concert in Queen Victoria Park. Earlier this year, staff submitted a funding request to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport’s Celebrate Ontario program and was approved. The city will receive…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls will receive $323,250 from two tourism programs to help secure talent and pay for production costs for the 2015 New Year’s Eve show. City staff made a submission for funding to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport’s Celebrate Ontario program for the Queen Victoria Park show televised…
From Niagara This Week: The City has managed to secure $240,000 to help stage the annual New Year’s Eve celebration at Queen Victoria Park. Staff was successful in obtaining a pair of grants — $184,500 from the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport’s Celebrate Ontario fund and an additional $50,000 from the Niagara Tourism Partnership.
From the Niagara Falls Review: A forensic audit is mining the vast records of the Niagara Parks Commission looking for evidence of wrongdoing, but it won’t be completed before the Oct. 6 election. “The forensic audit is very complex and is likely to take several more months to complete,” said Ministry of Tourism and Culture…
From the Niagara Falls Reporter: Chalk up a victory for justice and the Niagara Falls Reporter — whose articles on Ontario’s Niagara Parks Commission (NPC) and their secret arrangements with James Glynn, longtime owner of the Maid of the Mist — led to more than the unraveling of his lease. Last week, four NPC commissioners,…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Ontario government doesn’t want the same municipal politicians — including Fort Erie Mayor Doug Martin and Niagara Falls Coun. Vince Kerrio — reappointed to the Niagara Parks Commission board. The Niagara Falls Review learned through sources the Ministry of Tourism is looking to follow up its purge of four…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Parks Commission, which has recently been plagued by scandal and controversy, is in for quite the shake-up. Late Monday night, the Ontario Ministry of Tourism announced it was removing four commissioners from the Niagara Parks board. An interim board, composed of chairwoman Fay Booker, vice chairwoman Janice Thomson,…
I’ve said this a couple of times this summer, but I didn’t have any hard numbers to back me up… From the Niagara Falls Review: The latest figures from Ontario’s Ministry of Tourism show a modest increase in American visitation to Ontario during June compared to a year earlier when stricter border-crossing regulations came into…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Weddings aboard a tour boat in the mist of Niagara Falls could become a new tradition depending on what “innovative” ideas companies propose in their bids to operate tours from the Canadian side of the Niagara River. “You can provide anything that you think will work,” said Bill Mocsan, a…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s ironic to hear Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak accuse the Liberal government of “abandoning” tourism in Niagara Falls, but that’s politics. Hudak and Conservative tourism critic Ted Arnott blasted Liberal Tourism Minster Michael Chan for not visiting Niagara Falls since he became the provincial cabinet minister responsible for the…