Apparently CAZA and the OSPCA have inspected Marineland. Here are some news reports: Niagara Falls Review – Marineland releases inspection findings Niagara This Week – Inspection reveals ‘no major issues’ at Marineland The Canadian Press (via Canada.com) – No major issues found in inspection, says Marineland Niagara This Week – City adopts wait-and-see approach
From Niagara This Week: This year’s Red Bull Crashed Ice Tour will begin and end in Canada — and Niagara Falls will be front and centre. “This is going to appeal to sports fans,” Mayor Jim Diodati said Monday after the energy drink maker revealed the city would be a part of the 2012-13 series….
From Niagara This Week: Marineland is looking forward to inspections by the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and The Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the park said in a statement Friday. “We welcome the pending on-site inspection by the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and by…
From Niagara This Week: The streets are crowded, bodies are packed tightly aboard the Maid of the Mist Tour boats as they chug toward the foot of the Horseshoe Falls. Throngs of fun seekers on the sidewalks lining Clifton Hill spill out on to the road way. There seems to a be a buzz in…
From Niagara This Week: Some 60 years before Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope and focused attention from across the world on Niagara Falls; nearly two decades before the Christopher Reeve’s Superman made his famous flight over the mighty cataract to save a young boy’s life in 1979, Marilyn Monroe brought the bright lights of Hollywood…
From Niagara This Week: The exhibits for the most part are in place but there are still some finishing touches needed before the doors of a re-invented Niagara Falls History Museum swing open to the public for the first time on Saturday. “We moved in two months ago,” Niagara Falls Museums manager Clark Bernat said…
From Niagara This Week: The checkered flag has been waived and the Ontario Municipal Board hearing for the proposed Canadian Motor Speedway is over. Proceedings continued until last Thursday, wrapping up one day earlier than the initial two-week block set aside, and well short of the four-weeks originally scheduled for the hearing. “Finishing early is…
From Niagara This Week: Nik Wallenda’s walk across Niagara Falls nearly two weeks ago is still casting a glow over the city, one councillor said Tuesday. And councillor Wayne Thomson said he would like to see that glow carry over to the Horseshoe Falls itself — permanently. Thomson was impressed by the backlighting of the…
From Niagara This Week: With apologies to Storage Wars’ resident gambler, Darrell Sheets, in the eyes of Niagara Falls officials, it was the city which laid claim to the “wow factor” last Friday. Make that “Wow-lenda factor.” Even a few days after Nik Wallenda’s historic walk across Niagara Falls on a highwire, Mayor Jim Diodati…
From Niagara This Week: Nik Wallenda has done something no one has ever done before: crossed the Horseshoe Falls on a tight rope wire. The seventh generation Flying Wallenda had said crossing the falls had been a childhood dream of his. On Friday night, that dream came true when he completed the stunt across Niagara…