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OMCA
This year's
Ontario Transportation Expo (OTE)
Conference and Trade Show was well
attended, with delegates and exhibitors hailing from all across North America, and reaching as
far as Europe. Attendees and members of OMCA, OSBA and OPTA enjoyed a wide variety of
business sessions addre
ssing current issues and hot topics, including electronic logging
devices (ELDs), marketing strategies, border crossing, student transportation, seat belts,
recruitment and retention, and cap and trade.
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OMCA
Be sure to join us on August 15 as we throw our 47th Annual OMCA Golf Tournament at Legends on the Niagara.
Registration opens Monday, May 1 — more details to follow!
Timmins Press
Ontario drivers can again cast a ballot for the most bone-rattling streets in this year's CAA Worst Roads campaign.
The Canadian Automobile Association compiles the annual list to highlight to municipal and provincial governments which improvements are the more urgent. The automobile group compiles the results and picks the top 10 worst roads.
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CBC News
Metrolinx has provided some specific information to the overall vision of two-way all-day GO transit service between Kitchener and Toronto. Until the trains start running, Metrolinx is committed to investing in buses to transport commuters from Toronto to Kitchener, says Judy Pfeifer, Chief Communications and Public Affairs Officer with Metrolinx.
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Mississauga.com
The Ontario government has started the search for a company to design, build and finance the widening of Highway 401 from Mississauga Road west to Regional Road 25.
The massive expansion project from Mississauga to Milton will widen an 18-kilometre stretch of the busy highway from six lanes to as many as 12 lanes in some sections.
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Owen Sound Transportation Company (OSTC) is one of Ontario’s largest ferry operators with a highly experienced and dedicated staff providing state-of-the-art passenger, vehicle and cargo transportation services to northern and southwestern Ontario waterways.
Explore the Chi-Cheemaun and Manitoulin Island!
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The Record
Driver shields will appear on a few new Grand River Transit buses next year as part of a pilot project.
The move comes after the transit service's union asked for better protection on the job. Unifor 4304, the union representing 644 Grand River Transit workers, recently ratified a new contract with the Region of Waterloo.
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Insauga
According to Toronto Pearson's website, Greyhound will operate daily routes from Pearson to various Ontario destinations, such as Cambridge, Guelph, Hamilton, Kitchener, London, Niagara Falls, St. Catharines and Windsor. There will also be routes available heading to destinations such as in Illinois, Michigan and New York.
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Sarnia & Lambton County will be celebrating Canada’s birthday in true Canadian style.
We invite you to join us on the new Red & White Birthday tour themed in our nation’s patriotic colours.
Tour highlights include; Canadian art, wine, floral gardens, live theatre and even some Moose!
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Explore Four Points by Sheraton hotels across Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick & Nova Scotia for OMCA group blocks. We have what matters most like comfortable beds, delicious breakfast, fast & free WiFi, and great local beer with Best Brews™. Submit an RFP and enjoy exclusive offers for OMCA members.
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InsideBelleville.com
A bill to proclaim the third week in June as Ontario Craft Beer Week, introduced by MPP Lou Rinaldi, has received second reading and been referred to the Standing Committee on Private Bills and Regulations with all-party support.
The bill, if passed, will help officially recognize the local craft beer industry's "tremendous growth in both sales and popularity" over the past decade, and encourage Ontarians to discover local craft beer made by independently owned craft breweries in their own communities, Rinaldi stated in a news release.
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NiagaraThisWeek.com
When the Niagara Historical Society and Museum came to council last fall asking for additional funding, museum managing director Sarah Kaufman said the investment would help serve the community even further.
That's exactly what is happening, Kaufman told Niagara-on-the-Lake councillors during a recent council meeting.
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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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Birchtown, the largest free Black settlement in the 1780’s, where people voted with their feet for freedom. Come experience the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre. MORE
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Northumberland Today
About 170 school bus drivers descended on Baltimore in their buses recently to attend a special training day designed to improve the safety of students riding to and from school, says Student Transportation Services of Central Ontario chief administrative officer Joel Sloggett.
While it is up to his bus service and individual bus companies to make large-area decisions about weather and when routes are cancelled, it is up to each driver if his/her particular route, or small part of it, needs to be cancelled, Sloggett explained in an interview as the annual training day began.
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OurWindsor.ca
Think booking a flight is the only way to get a real vacation from the big city? Consider this: spring and summer road trips are perfect for families, retirees, friends and solo travellers, while offering an opportunity to see more of your own backyard that's often overlooked when travelling by air.
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Discover rich railroad history at the Northern Ontario Railroad Museum & Heritage Centre. The museum exhibits step-on relics from the early 1900s and provides a historical account of the mining and lumber industry in Northern Ontario. And for the model train buffs a brand new extensive and meticulously crafted model train layout.
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Indulge in Sticky Buns, Soft Pretzels and Chocolate
Lancaster, PA
Travel through time by horse-drawn wagon
and experience costumed guides and
traditional craftsmen interpreting village life in
the 1700-1800’s; sample our famous Sticky Buns.
Continue on to Lititz “ voted best small town in America” for your factory pretzel tour, you’ll roll a pretzel and then enjoy one.
Watch candy makers hand dip chocolates right before your
eyes and taste the samples; view the collection of chocolate
molds and memorabilia.
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TVO
The province sees the sharing economy as a way to fill gaps in parts of Ontario that transit doesn't reach. It should revamp its absurd bus rules instead
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CBC News
Municipalities along Highway 401 in eastern Ontario are calling on the province to update its road safety rules in the wake of a massive pileup last month that left a truck driver dead and caused a dangerous chemical spill.
The pileup between Brockville and Kingston on March 14 involved 30 vehicles and shut the major highway for more than a day after fluorosilicic acid spilled from tractor-trailers.
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The Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa offers an authentic Canadian cultural experience to groups of all sizes. Guided tours are offered in English and French, they feature a behind-the-scenes look at the Mint’s fascinating coin production process. Quote reference #Tour150 when booking by phone (1-800-276-7714).
For more information: www.mint.ca/tours.
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