For people like myself who look back on visits to Marineland wtih fond memories, news like this shared by the Toronto Star's Sammy Hudes is terribly depressing.

Ontario’s animal welfare agency announced six new animal cruelty and neglect charges against Marineland on Monday as part of a continuing investigation into the care of land mammals at the ( 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.

CBC's Amara McLaughlin reports on the charges of animal cruelty brought up against Niagara Falls' Marineland. I would say it's time: Certainly the conditions facing animals there, including the cetaceans on display, have often been criticized.

The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has charged Marineland with five counts of ( Read more... )

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... )

• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling mourns the death of Alvin Toffler.
• The Big Picture shares images of the Istanbul airport attack.
• blogTO notes Toronto's recent Trans March was the largest in world history.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly interviews memoirist Plum Johnson.
• Centauri Dreams considers the determination of distances to dim stars and ( 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... )

The Financial Post's Kristine Owram describes how, for the well-off, regular air flights might make Niagara a commuter's suburb of Toronto.

The chairman of the Niagara regional council recently met with Porter Airlines CEO Bob Deluce and pitched him on the idea of making the Niagara District Airport into the airline’s “service centre and aircraft ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos of a Shanghai neighbourhood that refuses to sell out to developers.
James Bow rates California rail.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the large dwarf planet 2007 OR10.
• Dangerous Minds notes a campaign by a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to raise funds to buy an airplane and a building.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the Kepler-223 system.
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Eric Adams' Wired article examines how, exactly, the "dewatering" of the American section of Niagara Falls is going to take place.

This round of dewatering needs to happen so engineers with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation can scrap two 115-year-old bridges that have reached-well, exceeded-the end of their ( Read more... )