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OMCA
The fourth busiest land border crossing between Canada and the U.S. will be getting a $50 million modernization to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection plaza on the U.S. side. Plans include construction of a new administration and secondary processing building that will be six times larger, replacement of the six existing car lanes with nine new lanes, replacement of the existing truck lanes with six new lanes, and the creation of a dedicated bus processing lane.
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Government of Ontario
The Ministry of Transportation recently turned 100. The ministry, originally called "The Department of Public Highways of Ontario," was created in 1916. Findlay G. MacDiarmid was the first Minister of Transportation.
Over the past 100 years, the Ministry of Transportation has built highways and bridges, expanded and improved public transit and implemented laws to help keep Ontario's roads safe.
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CBC News
Ontario Northland will begin offering bus service along highway 17 for the first time in the Crown corporation's history.
The new route — created after Greyhound cut its service along the Highway 17 corridor by half — will travel between Sudbury and Ottawa three times a week.
There are about a dozen stops along the route.
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Ottawa Business Journal
They stay longer than other travellers, come back more often and provide priceless advertising for Canada's Capital Region with their social media savvy.
We're talking, of course, about millennials — that increasingly powerful and influential group of consumers born in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Sarnia Observer
School buses could be the solution to Sarnia-Lambton's rural public transit woes, says Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley.
He's calling on the County of Lambton and community agencies to explore the creation of a rural transit service that would utilize school buses after reading about a similar initiative in the Muskoka District.
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There is no better way to visit Atlantic City - by yourself or with a group - than by bus or motor coach. Hop on one with companies and you'll receive front-dorr service to Resorts Casino Hotel.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario is investing in northern highway infrastructure on Manitoulin Island to make travel easier and safer.
Work will begin this spring to resurface 16 kilometres of Highway 540 west of Kagawong, replace culverts at Bond Creek, Burnt Creek, Wittys Creek and Ice Lake, rehabilitate the Kagawong Creek culvert, and replace the Kagawong Creek Tributary bridge. Portable traffic signals will regulate temporary lane closures on structures during construction.
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CBC News
Metrolinx is pushing forward with plans to boost GO train service to and from Barrie with a new bridge that is receiving resistance from some residents of Toronto. In order to provide more service along the Barrie line, the provincial transit agency says it needs to build a 1.5-kilometre segment of elevated tracks in the Davenport Road area to bypass a freight line running parallel to Dupont Street.
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Experience a full range of international masters and the best in Canadian art at National Gallery of Canada. This fall featuring Monet: A Bridge to Modernity on view until 15 February 2016. Guided tours and activities available. A highlight of your visit to Ottawa. Contact Helene for more information at 613.990.1938.
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Tourism Sarnia-Lambton invites tour operators to join us for a complimentary welcome reception with refreshments at our new location.
Contact Beverley at 1-800-265-0316.
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National Post
Destination Canada, the newly rebranded government-funded agency responsible for marketing us to the world, for taking our bite out of the $7 trillion global travel and tourism pie, continues to make similar mistakes as countries like Macedonia and Slovenia make. We are trying to be all things to all people, because we don't have enough confidence to put our money behind any one or two major things, like France does with its food and wine, or Italy with its history and art.
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CBC News
Ontario's Ministry of Transportation hopes to have two lanes of a failed bridge on a northern section of the Trans-Canada Highway open to traffic by the end of February.
However, engineers still don't know what caused the steel decking on the newly-built Nipigon River Bridge to lift about 60 centimetres recently, forcing a 24-hour shutdown that severed the Trans-Canada Highway link between the east and west.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario is expanding the 'Track My Plow' program to the Kingston West and Bancroft areas — an online portal that allows the public to track snowplows on provincial highways.
The new program has already been launched in the Owen Sound, Simcoe County and Huntsville areas and will expand to other parts of the province in the future.
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Beaverbrook is an uncompromising exhibition of 75 exceptional paintings spanning four centuries of European and Canadian art.
Plan your group tour to the Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia MORE
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Blockbuster musicals and award-winning productions from around the world come to four Mirvish theatres in the heart of downtown Toronto. MORE
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Hotel News Now
Global tourism is expected to remain buoyant in 2016 following another record last year. However, the threat of terrorism could keep fearful travellers at home and force governments to impose restrictions on foreign visitors, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.
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