Ontario

Recently my 6-year-old son came home from school with a little 4″ x 6″ booklet called Ontario: There’s No Place Like This

The cover also says Fun Pass. Inside are coupons for kids to various attractions in Ontario. There are 16 coupons, and the only for Niagara Falls is for the Niagara Parks Commission Butterfly Conservatory.

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Lonny on March 26th, 2009

From the Nashville Business Journal
Graham had posted about this on Tuesday, unfortunately you have to subscribe to Buffalo Business First to have read the entire article. I just happened to be looking for something related, and came across the same article in its entirety at the Nashville Business Journal. Since Graham already posted the lead parts [...]

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Lonny on March 26th, 2009

I have tried a lot of restaurants in my life, but sad to say I never got a chance to try an Outback. However I am not surprised to see these kind of places closing up with that kind of debt load. I actually took this picture last night and was going to post about it [...]

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Graham on March 26th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
The Outback Steakhouse Restaurant on Fallsview Blvd., in Niagara Falls, has closed along with eight other locations across Ontario.
The sign in front of the local restaurant was already down on Wednesday and the person who answered the phone directed all inquiries to another telephone number where an answering machine told callers [...]

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From the Niagara Falls Review:
There was no “wrongdoing” by Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams in the way his board renewed a lease with the Maid of the MIst nearly a year ago, Ontario’s integrity commissioner found after a seven-month investigation.
But there are “other issues” at the commission that require the provincial government’s attention to [...]

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Graham on March 16th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
Niagara Parks Commission chairman Jim Williams says a report by Ontario’s integrity commissioner, expected within days, will “vindicate” his board’s decision to renew its deal with the Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co.
Unconfirmed reports said the seven-month investigation into a formal complaint about the renewal of the parks commission’s lease with [...]

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Graham on March 9th, 2009

From WIVB:
Niagara Falls is a city that was once booming, but is now struggling.
With one of the world’s wonders in it’s backyard, how can the City of Niagara Falls be so impoverished, while across the river, the other Niagara Falls is bustling?
Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster said, “Niagara Falls, Ontario made the decision in 1970 [...]

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Graham on March 4th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review:
No news is bad news, according to Bob Gale, who’s taking his lack of contact with the Ontario government as a sign they don’t want him back on the Niagara Parks Commission.
After a controversial three-year term, the Niagara Falls businessman sent an email to his supporters Tuesday night thanking them for [...]

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Graham on October 20th, 2008

From ArticlesPro:
Niagara Waterfalls, the enormous waterfall, divides United States state of New York from Canadian province of Ontario. It consists of 2 main sections divided by American Falls on American side and Goat Islands- Horseshoe waterfalls on the Canadian side. The most influential waterfall in Northern America is a source of hydro electric power and [...]

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