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City of Toronto
On Sunday Dec. 31, 2017 the City of Toronto will be celebrating New Year's Eve on Nathan Phillips Square. This free, public event will start at 8:00 p.m. and includes a variety of musical performances culminating with a spectacular fireworks show at the stroke of midnight.
The fireworks show requires a safety fallout zone to be created around Toronto City Hall.
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Cision
Ensuring an efficient, secure border is important to Canadians and our economy. Almost $2.5 billion dollars' worth of two-way trade passes between Canada and the United States every day, in addition to more than 400,000 travellers.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) recently announced that radio frequency identification technology is now fully operational at select land ports of entry across Canada.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario has opened two new lanes on Highway 427, including a new High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane, to help improve traffic flow and get people where they're going sooner.
Steven Del Duca, Minister of Transportation, Shafiq Qaadri, MPP for Etobicoke North, Peter Milczyn, MPP for Etobicoke-Lakeshore, and Linda Jeffrey, Mayor of Brampton, made the announcement and opened the HOV lane, which runs southbound from Morningstar Drive to Fasken Drive.
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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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CBC News
Federal officials have been on a months-long campaign to surreptitiously slip the name Gordie Howe into conversations with top-level American counterparts to promote the new border crossing that will bear the hockey player's name.
The plan hatched earlier this year required government departments to mention the new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, ON, in any "messaging" on the Canada-U.S. relationship with top politicians and stakeholders, and remind them at every opportunity that the White House supports the project.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario is improving traffic flow and reducing congestion for families in Durham region, with the next phase of Highway 407 from Harmony Road to Taunton Road in Clarington set to open next month.
Steven Del Duca, Minister of Transportation, Jeff Leal, MPP for Peterborough, and Granville Anderson, MPP for Durham, were in Clarington to announce that the new section of Highway 407 is on track to open to traffic in early January 2018.
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Durham Region is emerging as the choice overnight stopover for tour operators travelling through Ontario. Passengers are able to spend less time combating traffic and more time exploring Durham and Toronto’s top tourist attractions. Departure and arrival is made simple with easy access to Highway 401 and 407 Express.
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Simcoe.com via Barrie Advance
It's time for Barrie councillors to "fish or cut bait" on the reconstruction of the Barrie Transit Terminal, Mayor Jeff Lehman said.
Barrie's general committee reviewed a technical and financial validation report regarding the proposed Maple Avenue marketplace during a recent meeting. The report calls for the city to immediately begin a $100,000 transit hub study to investigate the feasibility of relocating terminal operations to the Allandale GO Transit station, prior to the start of the reconstruction of the Maple site.
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Niagara Falls Review
There is a little known fact by most of the population in Niagara that is known by birders and naturalists all over the world.
On Dec. 11, 1996, the Niagara River became the first site on the planet to be designated a binational important bird area — for Canada and for the United States.
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Do you have you mother's dimples? Or your father's hairline? What is it about us that makes us us? And how much of it actually sets us apart from not only other human beings but from every other living thing on Earth? Genome: Unlocking Life's Code begins to unravel the mystery behind the complete set of instructions needed for every living thing on Earth to grow and function: the genome. At Science North until January 7th, 2018
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Are you looking to promote your business? The OMCA Report is delivered to the inboxes of motor coach enthusiasts across Ontario!
To find out how to feature your company in the OMCA Report, contact Radek Meljon today at 289-695-5394.
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Waterloo Chronicle
Public transit has become the equivalent of education and health care in Ontario in that funding for buses and trains and their related infrastructure is a perennial election campaign issue.
The upcoming spring vote in 2018 will be no different and indications point to heavy debate around moving people into and within the province's growing urban centres particularly in the Waterloo Region, Toronto and GTA.
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Autoblog
Communities across the United States are looking to replace their dirty diesel buses, ushering in what some analysts predict will be a boom in electric fleets.
But transit agencies doing the buying are moving cautiously, an analysis by Reuters shows. Out of more than 65,000 public buses plying U.S. roads today, just 300 are electric. Among the challenges: EVs are expensive, have limited range and are unproven on a mass scale.
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The Record
The government wants us all to get out of our cars. But that's easier said than done if you live in the country or in a small town.
It's a shame that as the Ontario government pours money into mass transit for cities, the options for people living in villages or small towns in rural areas remain compromised.
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