From the Toronto Star: The Ontario government has ordered Marineland to stop burying dead animals on its grounds immediately. The Ministry of the Environment gave the Niagara Falls tourist attraction a strict timetable to carry out a series of orders, which includes a comprehensive assessment by an environment firm of the entire park and interviews [...]
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The Marineland story keeps going on and on. Over the holidays, the Ministry of the Environment investigated the mass animal graves that Marineland has on their property. I’ve heard about these before, but this is the first time I’ve seen mention of them in mainstream media. From the Toronto Star: The provincial Environment Ministry is [...]
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Sounds there was quite a bit of excitement at Marineland on Sunday! From the Toronto Star: The last day of Marineland’s operating season drew hundreds of protesters outside the Niagara tourist attraction’s gates on Sunday and escalated when about 150 people stormed inside, yelling “shut it down.” Organizers said they hadn’t planned to enter the [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review: In your face, gravity. The Upside Down House is now open. It defies logic and might turn some stomachs, but the 1,200-square-foot house sitting on its roof near Clifton Hill has opened its doors. Business partners Marek Cyran and Adam Nielbvowicz came up with the concept after seeing a similar [...]
From the Buffalo News: Remember all of those rooms Niagara Falls hotels expected to book for Nik Wallenda’s dramatic tightrope walk? If they really want to protect the tourist attraction’s brand, they should offer full refunds to anyone who cancels after finding out the death-defying feat they thought they were coming to see will be [...]
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From the Buffalo News: The Journey Behind the Falls, a tourist attraction that provides views from behind and beside the base of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls, will be closed to visitors or will have limited access during the next two weeks as the Niagara Parks Commission conducts its annual spring maintenance along the rock wall [...]
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From WBEZ.org: Niagara Falls, like most Rust Belt cities, has fallen on hard times. Even its tourist attraction, which once made it America’s honeymoon capital, has not saved it from economic woes. But there seems to be hope in Niagara Falls, thanks to a rising current of East Indian tourists. East Indians are visiting the [...]
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From CBC News: The pitch by international daredevil Nik Wallenda to traverse Niagara Falls on a tightrope has provoked some local angst over what the historic tourist attraction is all about these days. On one side are those like the city’s mayor, Jim Diodati, who is in favour of bringing the seventh-generation member of the [...]
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From the Globe and Mail: Nik Wallenda walked his first tightrope when he was 2. He’s bicycled 45 metres across a wire suspended 20 storeys high. He even proposed to his wife on a high wire. But the famed funambulist’s most hair-raising feat yet may be a political one: persuading g the embattled government agency [...]
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