NOW Toronto's Shantal Otchere reports on how the Shaw Festival is overseeing a $25 bus shuttle connecting downtown Toronto to Niagara-on-the-Lake, for festival attendees.

If you bring them they will come ( Read more... )

The Financial Post's Garry Marr describes how the Toronto real estate boom is driving up prices elsewhere in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and beyond, as far as Niagara.

Canada’s largest city just keeps getting bigger - at least in terms of what constitutes “Toronto” real estate ( Read more... )

CBC Hamilton gives me one more reason to go to Niagara Falls this year.

A $4 million lighting makeover is dialling up the wow factor of Niagara Falls at night ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes Niagara Falls' new light show.
• Body Horrors reports on a 1980 epidemic of MRSA among Detroit drug users.
• Centauri Dreams describes the final orbits of Cassini around Saturn.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting Tabby's Star is being star-mined.
• Language Log looks at an element of Chinese slang regarding telecommunications.

The Globe and Mail carries Madeline Smith's Canadian Press article describing the new direct air route between Toronto and Niagara.

Starting Sept. 15, charter flight company Greater Toronto Airways will run two round trips between Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport and the Niagara Regional Airport every weekday ( Read more... )

Roy MacGregor's latest in an installment on river valleys of note in The Globe and Mail takes a look at the Niagara River, a wonder of nature shared by two countries. (I do have to get there, and soon. It is in Toronto's hinterland, after all.)

[T]he falls have moved, a remarkable recession chartered by scientists to have shifted 11 km upstream ( Read more... )

This evening, I returned to Toronto with Jerry from our one-year anniversary trip, a visit to Niagara Falls, Ontario over the Victoria Day long weekend just concluded. A more extensive post will follow, but for the moment (i.e. until I get the pictures), I'll just say that Niagara is a place of very scenic extremes and leave it there.