From Niagara This Week: City council wants Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton to make Niagara Falls a top choice on their upcoming trip to Canada. The city issued a preliminary invitation to the couple in late 2010, but talk of a summer honeymoon across the pond has council buzzing about the chance of…
From Niagara This Week: For Nancy Clayton there couldn’t be an easier fundraiser than the $1 museum day. As the vice-president of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF)’s Niagara chapter, she’s been organizing the event for the past 23 years. It started with a need to fundraise funds for cystic fibrosis research but what it’s…
From Niagara This Week: With mild weather and a great musical line-up, Niagara Falls was the place to be on New Year’s Eve. Canadian supergroups Barenaked Ladies and Great Big Sea were joined by hip hop artist Kardinal Offishall to ring in 2011 in style at the brink of the world famous Niagara Falls.
From Niagara This Week: The list of people to turn to is short, and getting shorter for Bob Gale in his ongoing push for what he considers a proper investigation of the Niagara Parks Commission. As a former commissioner, Gale has spent the last few years crusading for change at the arms-length agency of the…
From Niagara This Week: Niagara Falls may be one of the world’s most famous tourist attractions, but many visitors, even those from this country, just want to take a fast look at the water, buy some icewine, and head down the QEW to Toronto. And that’s a serious problem, says Niagara Parks Commission Chairwoman Fay…
From Niagara This Week: The weekend GO trains which ran into St. Catharines and Niagara Falls during the past two summers will become a regular occurance. Earlier this month, GO Transit announced the summer service, which saw four trains a weekend coming to the region from Toronto, will become a part of its regular network….
From Niagara This Week: Niagara Parks Commission Chairwoman Fay Booker has no immediate plans to replace departed Parks executive Joel Noden – at least not until the provincial agency goes through an extensive strategic planning process. “We’ll have to see,” Booker said Tuesday. “This isn’t our busiest time of the year. We’re coming into some…
From Niagara This Week: It was a picture-perfect moment, over 170 years ago. The world known attraction in Niagara Falls will be getting back a piece of its history that was once thought to be lost. Now, 13 years after its re-discovery, one of the earliest known photos of the Falls will return to its…
From Niagara This Week: Sleep Cheap, Charities Reap is back for its sixth year. Hotels started taking reservations on Monday for annual promotion that sees Niagara residents getting discounted rooms in Niagara Falls hotels over a four day period. This year, Sleep Cheap will be taking place over four nights: Nov. 15 through 18. Niagara…
There has been some news over the last day or two about the proposed Canadian Motor Speedway near Fort Erie: Niagara Falls Review – Road opening up for track One of the largest private-sector projects ever proposed in Fort Erie is one step closer to being built. The multi-million dollar Canadian Motor Speedway project will…