OTTAWA — Canadians will have to wait a little longer to learn whether they’ll need a visa to enter the EU. According to the Toronto Star, the European Commission has once again delayed the decision to implement visa requirements to Canadians until the Canada-EU summit this fall. The commission is …
Read More »FC agents party with Jason Derulo at Global Gathering
SINGAPORE — 3,000 Flight Centre employees are probably waking up with some sore heads this morning after the Global Gathering took place over the weekend. The annual event was held in Singapore at Marina Bay Sands with the theme of ‘Fast & Furious’. Shit just got #real #Experience the #extraordinary …
Read More »Aqua Amazon explodes, sinks during Saturday turn-around
LIMA — Five crew members are missing after an explosion onboard Aqua Expeditions’ Aqua Amazon caused the ship to sink on Saturday. The accident occurred during the regular Saturday supplying and turn-around hours for re-stocking of the vessel, according to a statement from Aqua Expeditions. “No passengers were onboard but …
Read More »Agents learn there’s much more to Malta than just sea
HAMILTON – Malta Tourism Authority (MTA), along with Canadian-based tour operator Exclusively Malta, hosted more than 60 travel agents at a special evening titled ‘Malta, Much More to Sea’ just outside of Toronto. Held on June 21 at the Malta Band Club in Mississauga, the event was hosted by Michelle …
Read More »JFK airport takeoffs disrupted by turtles’ mating ritual
NEW YORK — Mother Nature is delaying some travellers at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport – and the weather has nothing to do with it. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says nearly 400 diamondback terrapin turtles have laid eggs and built nests in the …
Read More »Attack in Nice leaves 84 dead; France in national mourning
NICE, FRANCE — A Frenchman of Tunisian descent drove a truck through crowds celebrating Bastille Day along Nice’s beachfront, killing at least 84 people, many of them children. The slaughter ended only after police killed the armed attacker in a hail of bullets. French leaders on Friday extended the country’s …
Read More »Airbus launches new booking engine for A380 aircraft
TORONTO — Got a thing for big planes? Airbus has launched a new booking engine dedicated entirely to A380 aircraft, reports TravelTalk. The website iflya380.com aims to zero in on passengers who prefer to fly on this specific aircraft model. According to the plane maker, three in five of flyers …
Read More »UNESCO announces 4 new World Heritage Sites
ISTANBUL — UNESCO has put four new sites on its World Heritage List. The new sites, announced Friday, include China’s Zuojiang Huashan rock art cultural landscape, Iran’s ancient aqueducts known as Qanat, and India’s archaeological site of Nalanda Mahavihara. The World Heritage Committee also selected Micronesia’s artificial islets of Nan …
Read More »Buy Local: Buy BC with new interactive map
As the ‘Buy Local’ movement continues to pick up steam, Buy Local BC has released its very first ‘Buy Local! Buy Fresh!’ Thompson-Shuswap map. The Thompson-Shuswap map will be similar to one you may be familiar with. This announcement comes at the same time as the fourth-annual 2016 ‘Buy Local! Buy …
Read More »$450K donated for Okanagan Rail Trail in 10 days
In just 10 short days the Okanagan Rail Trail has received $450,422 worth of donations. At the end of June, an anonymous Okanagan resident wanted to up the ante and decided they would match donations up to $50,000 for the trail from July 1-10. With $33,000 being donated in the …
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