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CATO teams up with Tourism Cares to advance sustainable travel
PAX
The Canadian Association of Tour Operators (CATO) has announced a strategic partnership with Tourism Cares to collaborate, educate, and advance sustainable tourism.
Tourism Cares is a non-profit organization that advances the travel industry’s positive impact to help people and places thrive.
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Ontario Throne Speech commits to highways, cites $11 billion in congestion costs
Truck News
Ontario’s provincial government is saying it is “time to build” as clogged roads and gridlocked highways cost the provincial economy more than $11 billion per year.
The observation in the latest Throne Speech, presented on Tuesday by Lt.Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, came with renewed commitments for several highway projects.
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Can I Travel To Canada From The U.S.?
Forbes
If you are planning a trip to Canada, you need to be aware of the risks and travel restrictions as they relate to Covid-19. Although the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends avoiding travel entirely, the federal government still designates Canada as a country with a Level 3 — or High — COVID-19 incidence rate.
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Georgian launches free credential program to aid tourism sector
OrilliaMatters
Georgian College is introducing an UpSkill Tourism micro-credential program to address the labour challenges experienced in the hospitality and tourism sector.
This fully-funded program offers two distinct and unique micro-credentials that are aimed at supporting the employment skills gap and training challenges specific to today’s hotel, resort and restaurant industries in the Muskoka, Simcoe, Dufferin, Grey and Bruce regions.
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Travel 180 feet beneath the historic Niagara Parks Power Station to explore the 2,200-foot-long tunnel that leads to the edge of the Niagara River. Make your way to an observation deck where you’ll get a never-before-seen view of the magnificent Niagara Falls!
Book your group tour with us today: groups@niagaraparks.com
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More tourism relief funds heading to Perth County
The Stratford Beacon Herald
Stratford area tourism operators will benefit from another $500,000 in pandemic relief funds from the province, Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae announced Thursday. Eight cultural groups in the region, including the Stratford Festival, are receiving grants from the Reconnect Ontario program, a provincial fund designed to support festivals and events still recovering from the pandemic.
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After conservation efforts reintroduced Saskatchewan bison to their traditional lands in 2019, they helped archaeologists uncover 1,000-year-old petroglyphs and the tool used to carve them.
This historic find uncovers a new chapter in the story of the Northern Plains Indigenous People who have gathered on this land for over 6,000 years.
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Niagara's Canada Summer Games officially begins with opening night spectacle
Niagara Falls Review
Team Ontario’s Taija Sta Maria waved the provincial flag back and forth as thousands of clapping spectators and a dancing turtle mascot greeted athletes inside Meridian Centre Saturday night.
“I’m super excited to be carrying the flag for Team Ontario and leading our athletes in the opening ceremonies of this year’s Canada Summer Games on our home soil,” the basketball player from Vaughan said earlier in the day at a press conference in Niagara Falls.
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FlixBus to offer service in Windsor
CTV News
Windsorites now have a new option for travelling out of the city.
FlixBus, a New York based travel company, has expanded its Canadian bus network in Ontario, and added new lines running between Windsor-Toronto-Ottawa on Thursday.
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Explore magnificent scenery, outstanding dining, craft beverage and farm market trails, outdoor adventure steeped in our nation's rich history, and so much more! Rediscover your inspiration in Gettysburg and Adams County, Pennsylvania.
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GO Transit workers vote in favour of strike if no deal is reached: Union
CBC News
The union representing 2,200 GO Transit bus operators, station attendants, plant and fleet maintenance workers, transit safety officers, and office professionals says its members have voted 93 per cent in favour of going on strike if necessary.
In a release issued early Monday, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1587 accused provincial Crown agency Metrolinx of refusing to negotiate on critical issues, including job security, wages and improved work-life balance.
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Should all parts of the province have to play by the same pandemic rules?
TVO
From the beginning, one of the challenges in managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario has come from the province’s size: approaches to dealing with an airborne virus in the densely populated Greater Toronto Area, say, will be hugely different from those used in more sparsely populated places. And Ontario does, of course, have lots of places with fewer people — rural areas in the south and also in the north, where 80 per cent of the province’s land area contains just 10 per cent of the people.
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Tourism Development Fund hands out money
Sault Star
Sault Ste. Marie’s Tourism Development Fund has approved the allocation of funding to three projects. City council confirmed the approval at Monday’s meeting.
The fund supports tourism in two streams, festivals and special events and attractions and product development.
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2022 Ontario 55+ Summer Games have arrived in Peterborough
PTBO Today
After a long and winding road, the 2022 Ontario 55+ Summer Games has arrived.
We spoke with Games Organizing Committee Chair Fred Batley recently and he told us there was never a doubt these games were going to happen despite some COVID-19 delays.
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From landmark sights and monuments, to national museums, Indigenous culture, festivals and celebrations–Ottawa immerses visitors in the inspiring stories of our amazing country.
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Science North selects a Thunder Bay waterfront site for regional expansion
Northern Ontario Business
A Thunder Bay waterfront location is the "preferred" spot for a permanent home for Science North’s expansion into northwestern Ontario.
In a news release, the Sudbury-based science centre announced that the Pool 6 site in the city’s harbour will be the location to build its 34,000-square-foot attraction.
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