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1.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ontario - A Southern Ontario Tour: Creemore, Collingwood And Orillia Late spring is the perfect time for a driving tour, so yesterday my co-workers Vanessa, Khurram and I set off to check out the countryside around Toronto. Neither one of my co-explorers has lived in Canada for very long, so they haven’t really had a chance to discover areas outside the Big Smoke. So this was their first opportunity to venture forth into the hinterland that surrounds our big city.After leaving the 16-lane frenzy of Highway 401 and a brief ride on the 410 w...
2.	Bookmarks: 0	A Tourist Guide To Toronto Although not the capital of the county, Toronto is the largest city in Canada. It has the world’s tallest tower, great theme parks and a beautiful harbour precinct on the shores of Lake Ontario. It is becoming increasingly more popular as a tourist destination. Travelling thereGenerally people arrive to this area of eastern Canada in two ways. The first is to arrive at the Toronto Pearson International airport that is extremely busy and receives lights from worldwi...
3.	Bookmarks: 0	To The East Is Quebec Quebec is a province that is located east of Ontario; it is Canada’s biggest province and has the second most people living there. There are about 7,568,640 people living there (as of 2005). The province is French speaking, that is there office language but a lot of people speak English there as well. The provinces capital city is Quebec City and the largest city is Montreal. This province has a deep history with Canada as a lot of settler settled in and around these areas.
4.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa: My Packed Itinerary For My 2-day Getaway To Canada's Capital For a while my friend Theresa and I had been planning to go back to Ottawa and experience Winterlude, Ottawa's winter festival. About three years ago we went to Ottawa, only to be rained out . Our main activity had fallen through: skating on the Rideau Canal, and even the ice sculptures had melted.But that didn't deter us. So this past Friday we got in the car and after a pleasant 4.5 hour drive we arrived in Ottawa. After documenting my first impressions, we checked in...
5.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa - First Impressions And An Overview My partner in crime Theresa and I went to Ottawa 3 or 4 years ago in the winter to catch Ottawa's famous winter festival Winterlude. Unfortunately that year the weather was too warm and the weekend was a total wash-out. Even the ice sculptures had melted.Well, it was time to give it a second shot. So this past Friday we got in the car and once we drove through a few snow squalls past Oshawa it was smooth sailing all the way to Canada's capital. We got into town right ar...
6.	Bookmarks: 0	The Province Of Ontario The name Ontario is said to come from the Iroquoian (first nation) word meaning vast body of water. It is the second largest Province in Canada, spanning approximately one million square kilometers. It stretches all the way from the Great Lakes to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay in the North. Situated between the provinces of Manitoba to the west and Quebec to the East, the Province borders the USA to the South. It is home to 6 National and 280 Provincial Parks which gi...
7.	Bookmarks: 0	An Overview Of Toronto Toronto is the capital of the Province of Ontario. It is Canada’s largest city, and with a population of 2.6 million it is the fifth largest in North America. It is also at the center of the Golden Horseshoe, a densely populated region along the western shores of Lake Ontario which is home to roughly eight million people, or one quarter of the population of Canada.The skyline of the city is stunning and unmistakable. Its best-known landmark, the CN Tower, is the world’s t...
8.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Toronto – Free Music, Great Food And Street Life At Toronto’s Taste Of Little Italy Festival season is in full swing. Summer is a great time to be in Toronto since there are multiple events going on at the same time. I had just heard about the “Taste of Little Italy” street festival and decided to partake of a little free-admission Italo-style celebration.When I got there yesterday at about noon the restaurants and bands were still setting up. Streets were closed all the way from Euclid to Shaw and everyone was working feverishly to prepare for the 3rd a...
9.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From The Canadian Rockies: Our First Excursion To Calgary, Banff And Lake Louise My husband and I try to go skiing for a week at least once a year and so far we've been to about 15 different ski resorts on the east coast, anywhere from Ontario to Quebec, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. But we had never been out west in the Rockies. Well, it was time to change that.....So we planned a trip to the Canadian Rockies, and for both of us it was the first time for us to see this majestic mountain range. Just after we landed on March 4, 2006 we started off ...
10.	Bookmarks: 0	Healthcare In Canada Healthcare in Canada is a vital subject for anyone moving to or residing in Canada. The Federal Government does provide some funding from the taxpayer for the health system, however, each Province is individually responsible for its own Healthcare system.There is a basic free system (Alberta, BC and Ontario charge the residents a healthcare tax or premium to pay for this!) that every legal resident and citizen of Canada is entitled to which includes access to a family doc...
11.	Bookmarks: 6	Paddles, Portages And Pings On Leadership After 3 long days of a very intensive workshop in Toronto, a group of us decided to go canoeing for a day, up in Barre, Ontario (an hour north of Toronto) on the Nottawasaga River. It was a warm day, the water was warm, and no one else was on this pristine flat-water river winding through a protected swamp. We had idyllic moments out of time, we had mishaps and laughs, and we had the slogs of carrying canoes and gear (called a portage) around logjams in the river more tha...
12.	Bookmarks: 5	Ontario Sports and Olympic Youth Academy (OOYA) shape our leaders beyond the 2010 Winter Olympics The Ontario Olympic Youth Academy provides a perfect environment for your high school leaders to experience and consider sports management, education or coaching as a career. Witness to this 4-day workshop-format conference in Ottawa Canada proved these teenagers have the leadership and will to make a difference in their schools and their communities, all through the creation of sports and physical activity programs. All provinces should now be actively supporting this youth leadership forum.
13.	Bookmarks: 0	Bed and Breakfast - The Historic Auberge Mcgee Inn (part I) During my assignment here in Ottawa to cover the Tulip Festival I am staying in one of my favourite types of accommodation: a bed and breakfast. Not only will you ever see two B&B properties that are the same, the story of every bed and breakfast owner is unique as well.
14.	Bookmarks: 0	Ontario, Your Next Vacation Spot Ontario is the second-largest in area of Canada's ten provinces and is found in east-central Canada. Its capital is Toronto. Ottawa, the capital of Canada, is also located in Ontario. Ontario has a population of 12,449,502, representing approximately 37.9% of the total Canadian population. It's excellent transportation links to the American heartland has contributed to making manufacturing the principal industry, found mainly in the Golden Horseshoe region, the most indus...
15.	Bookmarks: 0	Hello From Ottawa: The Historic Auberge Mcgee Inn (Part II) I enquired about how the transition phase went and Judy and Sarah said that it was pretty easy and seemed very natural. They had all read a lot of books on how to run a bed and breakfast and their previous work experience in different fields came in handy. They also did some first hand research and went to Kingston to stay in different B&Bs. Judy said that the key deciding factor is whether you like people or you don’t. She adds that they had always been comfortable hosting g...
16.	Bookmarks: 0	Exploring Ontario In The Winter - Hello From Barrie Our winter getaway over the last two days was supposed to include a couple of different activities: snow-tubing and outdoor skating. Well, our outdoor skating fell through, due to the extraordinarily warm conditions, however, we had a beautiful day yesterday on Kempenfelt Bay in Barrie, where we enjoyed some great outdoor time on frozen Lake Simcoe.Today, after our delicious filling breakfast at Nicholyn Farms Bed and Breakfast, we headed off for another adventure: snowtu...
17.	Bookmarks: 3	Experience Canada's Best Kept Secret: The Haliburton Highlands If you are planning to head to Canada on vacation, be sure to find out about the Haliburton Highlands. The is truly one of Canada's prize destination resorts. Until relatively recently, there was not much there that would appeal to the pleasure seeking, comfort seeking, adventure seeking modern day vacationers whose tastes and requirements for what they expect in vacation resorts continually becomes more demanding. But all this has changed and Ontario’s Haliburton High...
18.	Bookmarks: 0	Just Write: Wherever You Are There was a time when you needed to relocate if you wanted to become a successful writer. In essence you went where the work was.The Internet has opened a whole new world for writers. The idea of telecommuting has become a welcome component to the mechanism of freelance.Today you can sit in a kitchen in Iowa and write for a publication based in the heart of New York. You can write for a firm in Australia from the comfort of your home office in Ontario. You can also wr...