Someone with a WordPress blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: We weighed out our options for a long weekend away: Toronto, Niagara Falls, Camping Trip. We’d done TO a few times before, so we weren’t super-excited about another stay at the SoHo. We also don’t own any camping equipment and have a…
Someone with a LiveJournal blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: So I went to Niagara Falls this weekend, and came home with a fairly wicked sunburn. This — for those of the readership not au fait with So. Ontario springs — is, to put it mildly, odd. The wind- and rainstorm that’s…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The return of GO Transit trains to Niagara Falls is “absolutely wonderful,” says Niagara Falls woman Denise Kurek, one of the first passengers aboard last summer’s “excursion train” to Toronto as the provincial agency tested weekend service between Ontario’s two most popular tourism destinations. “We don’t like driving to Toronto,”…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara remained Ontario’s most popular spot for gambling in 2009 despite drops in revenue, the number of gamblers and employees at Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara, according to Ontario Lottery and Gaming figures for the last three months of the year. “We continue to generate substantial revenue for the…
From the Buffalo News: The cataracts at Niagara Falls, normally illuminated at night by floodlights, will go dark from 8:30 to 9:30 Saturday in honor of Earth Hour, a worldwide effort to draw attention to climate change. The event urges individuals, businesses and organizations to turn off all non-essential lights.
From the Niagara Falls Review: About the only thing faster than Olympic gold medallist Jon Montgomery going downhill on his skeleton is how quickly his popularity across the country has exploded. From his joyous acceptance of the gold medal to his spontaneous beer-jug hoisting celebration on the streets of Whistler, B.C., Montgomery has become a…
From Wired.com: Niagara Falls is a beautiful marvel of nature indeed, but urban planners were more interested in the falls’ potential to generate copious amounts of electricity. Of course, to produce power, the project needed a reservoir with a pumping plant, which would require land. Robert Moses, a famously elitist urban planner, didn’t wish to…
The Travel Eazy blog has posted about Niagara Falls: Niagara Falls is a popular tourist site for over a century, and it is the second largest falls on the globe next to Victoria Falls in southern Africa. Niagara Falls attracts some 12 Million tourists to her majestic awesome beauty each year. It is a place…
From the Buffalo News: A new stairway will descend into the Niagara Gorge from a scenic overlook near the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge under a plan to enhance trails and viewpoints at three points in Niagara Falls and Lewiston. The new stairs will descend about 300 feet to a second overlook above the lower Niagara River,…
From TGDaily.com: Visitors to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver next week will be able to control lightshows at major landmarks by the power of thought alone. Toronto-based InteraXon has invented a headset that picks up the user’s alpha and beta waves and translates them into commands. “We’re like interpreters fluent in the language of the…