From the Globe and Mail: The Niagara Parks Commission is fending off claims it is tilting a tendering process in favour of the Maid of the Mist, the tour boat company whose exclusive access to Niagara Falls has been controversial for the Ontario government agency. Last year, after a four-decade monopoly for the Maid’s American…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Rich Uncle Pennybags can blow it out his top hat. He’s the cartoon-character mascot of the Monopoly board game. Despite his grandfatherly image – with that Wilford Brimley mustache, sophisticated walking stick and the same tuxedo he has been wearing for nearly a century – Pennybags just snubbed Niagara Falls…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The heck with Hasbro, makers of the Monopoly game, and the way it’s forcing Niagara Falls to win an online contest to earn a place on its new Canadian edition of the world-famous board game. Niagara Falls isn’t second prize in somebody’s beauty contest. The company is holding a vote…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Vote, vote, vote. That’s the only way Niagara Falls will have a chance to end up on the new Canadian version of the ever-popular board game Monopoly. Sixty-five cities were preselected for the national vote – but Niagara Falls isn’t on the list. Nothing to worry about, said Hasbro Canada…
From the Globe and Mail: The Niagara Parks Commission, the secretive provincial agency that manages the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, has been ordered to review its decision to extend the Maid of the Mist’s monopoly on boat tours of the world-famous landmark. The Queen’s Park directive follows two government-ordered reviews of the agency launched…