From Niagara This Week: Employees at the Scotiabank Convention Centre could be excused for wanting to have their cake and eat it, too. Staff were marking the centre’s second anniversary, and a brief cake cutting ceremony was held to celebrate. Mayor Jim Diodati joined board chair Wayne Thomson and SCCN president and general manager Kerry [...]
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From Niagara This Week: The $400-million Canadian Motor Speedway project met its latest challenge Thursday as arguments were heard in an appeal of an Ontario Municipal Board decision green-lighting the project were heard in Toronto. Azhar Mohammad, the project’s executive director, said the day-long hearing went well and he’s looking forward to a positive decision [...]
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From Niagara This Week: It was far from quiet at City Hall on Tuesday as demonstrators protested outside council chambers for the second consecutive council meeting. As city councillors dealt with motions, zoning changes and other regular council business inside, demonstrators from Marineland Animal Defense — a self-described campaign of concerned citizens determined to end [...]
From Niagara This Week: A proposed zip line attraction within the Niagara Parks system has take a step forward. The Niagara Parks Commission has issued a Request for Qualifications to identify interested proponents to develop what it describes as “an environmentally friendly zip line attraction” to be located at a location that has yet to [...]
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From Niagara This Week: The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ordered Marineland to clean up its water and deal with health issues among specific animals, an OSPCA source told the Star. Until now the orders have been kept secret. There are a total of seven OSPCA orders — five to be [...]
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From Niagara This Week: If Mayor Jim Diodati was to give a grade to the year 2012 in Niagara Falls, it would be a ‘B’. And that would be a good thing. That ‘B’ stands for “blockbuster” and he said there was no shortage of blockbuster events over the course of the year. “There’s no [...]
You probably saw this, but on December 28, 2012 the Google logo on their search web site was changed to honour the 160th birthday of Leonardo Torres-Quevedo, the designer of the Whirlpool Aero Car (formerly Spanish Aero Car). You can read more about it in Niagara This Week’s article called Google celebrates Niagara aero car [...]
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From Niagara This Week: Polish off those loonies because Dollar Day at museums in and around Clifton Hill is here again. And as it turns out, residents are already chomping at the bit, one of the women organizing the Jan. 13 event says. “The phone has already been ringing. People are calling wanting to know [...]
From Niagara This Week: Come the spring, the Niagara Parks Commission’s Incline Railway will have a new look. Construction crews have been busy over the past few weeks dismantling the old system, which has been in service for almost five decades. “It will be an all season fully accessible system,” said Marcelo Gruosso. “The old [...]
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