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OMCA
We're about two and a half short weeks away from our 47th Annual Golf Tournament!
Click here to register today! Spaces are limited so get yourself signed up, and bring your twosome, threesome or foursome!
- Sponsorship opportunities: An array of sponsorships is available, including golfer awards, specialty holes and more. Take this opportunity to put your company name on display, with exposure to your target market. For more details, view our sponsorship options online or contact Laura Huether at laura@omca.com.
- OMCA Golf Prize Table: OMCA will be donating all proceeds from the golf prize table raffle to the Mary Lynn Higgins Youth Fund (MLHYF), a great organization that provides opportunities for underprivileged youth to join in on class trips. We are asking our members to join us once again by making a donation(s) valued at $100 or more — contact us at info@omca.com to make your donation today.
OMCA
Members of OMCA are looking forward to the 2017 OMCA Marketplace in Toronto and we are seeking donations for our 20th Annual Silent Auction!
The auction is a great opportunity to promote your services and to give back to the tourism community at the same time. You can donate products that represent your region or company, trips for individuals or groups to use your services, or an item that will entice people to bid on/purchase to help the cause. All proceeds fund future internships and/or scholarships for students in tourism to encourage and support the next generation of travel professionals.
Click here to make your donation now!
Sault Star
It's too early to gauge how many visitors will check out Sault Ste. Marie this summer but according to Statistics Canada, travel trends are changing.
Stats Canada reports that Canadians are making fewer trips to the United States — only 3.2 million trips in May.
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Government of Ontario
Some 450 athletes, coaches, managers, support staff, technicians and mission staff from across Ontario are set to represent the province at the 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Competing at the Canada Summer Games allows Ontario's athletes to gain the elite competition experience that they need to excel on the world stage. More than 4,000 athletes from all of Canada's provinces and territories will compete in 16 sports at this year's Games.
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Montreal Gazette
Once the hammering stops at Quebec construction sites, it's possible many of the province's construction workers will be spending part of their vacation pay south of the border.
This year, the Commission de la construction du Québec issued 148,500 vacation paycheques, worth about $400 million. That's about 10 per cent more than the $364 million issued in 2016 because of a jump in activity in the construction sector in the second half of that year.
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Cruise aboard Sunset Cruises Peerless II and see what Muskoka is all about. Enjoy the sights of the stunningly rugged and beautiful Canadian Shield on the Muskoka lakes. Muskoka Lakes Museum is located adjacent to our dock in historic Port Carling, this is a "must see" while visiting Muskoka.
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CHCH
Last fall, bus driver shortages across the province caused long delays with drivers needing to sometimes double and triple their routes to get all the kids to school.
First Ontario provides fifty hours of training and background checks to ensure student safety.
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Sudbury Star
Ontario stands to lose millions in revenue when the provincial government privatizes Ontario Lottery and Gaming, the NDP charges. And it wants Financial Accountability Officer Stephen LeClair to determine how much.
The NDP's Finance critic, John Vanthof, wrote to LeClair, asking him to "calculate how much Ontario families stand to lose."
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Bradford Times
Guest speaker at a recent meeting of Bradford's Probus Club 2 was Katherine Ash, LCBO representative, who came to talk about Canada’s growing wine industry.
Ash spoke of the opportunities to take wine to the next level — to plan winery tours, and combine wine-tastings with gastronomic adventures, on Ontario's festival trail.
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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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The Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa offers the opportunity to bring a truly and authentic Canadian cultural experience to groups of all sizes throughout the year. Our tours are offered in both English and French and provide your group the opportunity to experience the fascinating process of coin production.
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Daily Commercial News
The project titled Gaspe, terre de rencontres is a tourist attraction featuring multimedia projections in downtown Gaspe. The project will reflect major events in the town's history, emphasizing the historical involvement of indigenous, anglophone and francophone people, and showcase other major attractions in the greater Gaspe area.
The other tourism project will see development of facilities promoting the marine fishery heritage in nearby Riviere-au-Renard.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario is transforming how people get around the Greater Toronto Area with the completion of the Dufferin Street Bridge Widening project, a milestone in the GO Regional Express Rail (RER) program.
Passing over Queen Street West, the Dufferin Street Bridge has been widened to accommodate the additional track needed to increase service levels between Toronto and Barrie on the Barrie GO corridor.
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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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Celebrate Canada’s 150th with a Unique Getaway Package to beautiful Muskoka and enjoy our exciting All-Canadian Summer season with plays & concerts all Summer long!
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Sault This Week
The Coalition for Algoma Passenger Trains encourages Algoma residents to give the government feedback about a draft transportation strategy.
The Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Northern Development and Mines have released a draft 25-year Northern Ontario Multimodal Transportation Strategy, which CAPT representatives say is flawed.
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Hotel News Now
It's accepted wisdom in most businesses, including ours, that bigger is better.
With size comes geographic and demographic reach, access to capital markets, resources for future development and acquisitions, industry influence, economies of scale in areas such as operations, finance, technology and marketing, and the wherewithal to maximize "share of voice" and the ability to utilize all forms of communications to reach every desired audience.
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Art Gallery of Sudbury has a collection of contemporary and historical works of art, including a selection by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. The Gallery offers a Plein Air excursion to learn on site painting and drawing techniques at a favourite painting spot of A.Y. Jackson of the Group of Seven.
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July 15-16 with a free 2 day festival, at the historical site in Birchtown Nova Scotia, featuring African Nova Scotian artists, musicians and playwrights. For more information visit our Website or like our page on Facebook.
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Toronto Sun
Speeders and aggressive drivers have contributed to a deadly year on the province's highways, says OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt.
There have been 138 deaths on the network of highways patrolled by the OPP.
Schmidt said while the number is slightly below last year's total, it's still too high.
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CTV News
Fifty years after French President Charles de Gaulle shouted "Vive le Quebec libre!" to a massive crowd in Montreal, the city offered free tours of the balcony where the controversial declaration was made.
De Gaulle stirred up the sovereignty movement in Quebec with his inflammatory speech, delivered from the Montreal City Hall balcony on July 24, 1967, on the second day of his visit to Canada.
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CBC News
Last September, Lisa Aucoin, 26, and Mitchell Wood, 25, were exhausted, riding a bus back from a 14-day rotation working in the oilsands near Fort McMurray, Alta.
Tired of the grind of their routine, they started bouncing around ideas of what they could do instead.
They met as teenagers on Quebec's Magdalen Islands, and have been together for more than 10 years. Seasoned travellers, they wanted to do something related to travelling and meeting people.
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Hotel News Now
As the micro-style hotel trend grows, designers at these properties have found effective ways to make them as functional and spacious as the infrastructure will allow.
But that doesn't mean eliminating the essentials, sources said. All of the key elements that consumers want in a hotel should still hold true, even if it's on a smaller scale, said Bob Kraemer, principal and co-founder of Kraemer Design Group.
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