Daily Archives: July 26, 2010

By Doug Draper

Canada’s federal Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is wheeling his “Liberal Express” into Niagara this July 30th for what he is billing as a “town hall meeting” and you are all invited.

The Friday public meeting begins at 1:45 p.m. and will take place at the Old Merritton Town Hall on 343 Merritt Street in St. Catharines, Ontario.

This meeting is another in a series of get-togethers Ignatieff is hosting across the country in a bid to strike enough of a connection with Canadians to prevail in an election that could within the next 12 months.

Since members of the federal Liberal Party officially endorsed him as leader of the party in May of last year, Ignatieff – or Iggy as he is often called – has found himself sagging in public-opinion polls suggesting, more and more, that the Conservative government of Stephen Harper might finally win a majority if Iggy is one of Harper’s only real opponents in the next election. Continue reading →

If you are up for a great summer festival in one of Niagara’s historic port and canal communities, then follow the crowds to Canal Days in Port Colborne, Ontario this July 30^th through August 2^nd.

Canal Days, Port Colborne, Ontario. File photo by Doug Draper

The Canal Days Marine Heritage Festival is celebrating its 32^nd year as an event that, earlier this year was designated by Festivals & Events Ontario, through a nomination process that included more than 3,000 festivals and events across Ontario, as among the top 100 best to go to across the province.

In recent years, countless tens-of-thousands of people of all ages and from both sides of Niagara’s binational border have flocked to Canal Days for live music, craft shows, car and motorcycle shows, carnival rides, fireworks displays and much more along the shores of Lake Erie and the Welland Canal.

For more information on this festival and events featured this year, visit canaldays.ca or call 1-800-Port-Fun.

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By Doug Draper

As the days and weeks go by since that infamous weekend in late June at the G20 summit, the call for a full and open inquiry into security operations around the summit builds.

Riot police around Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario during recent G20 summit.

And so does the gallery of digital images – most captured using all those new-fangled gadgets that can now be brought into play by mostly younger people. Many may not be journalists in the traditional sense and may therefore not deserve mass attention, according to journalistic elites like Toronto Globe and Mail columnist Christie Blatchford and others.

But what these amateur journalists are posting on youtube and through other venues may be more important than any of the crap that Blatchford and other mainstream-media dish out to the powers-that-be.

In that spirit, Niagara At Large is offering the following link to one video and there are many others you can find on line. All should lead to a growing call from anyone who cares about freedom and democracy in Canada for a full and open inquiry.

Here is the link for the video we are posting at the moment at – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbLU9tdDwxo 
 

There may be other digital stills or video you wish to offer. We would consider posting them.

(Click on Niagara At Large at www.niagaraatlarge.com for more news and commentary on matters of interest and concern to our greater binational Niagara region.)