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[24/06/2009] With more than 1700 slot machines, countless gaming card tables and betting wheels, the Casino Niagara has plenty to offer in the way of entertainment.
Sited above a hotel and entertainment complex, and attached to a huge waterpark, the Casino is part of the Niagara experience of all-hours fun. Open from very early until very late at night, it is often quite busy in season, and is popular with sports betters who cluster round the live-action screens to pick their in game options.
With 4 different bars and restaurants, also has a wide choice of dining available, including the spectacular
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[24/06/2009] Sited in a refurbished building on the original site, the St Lawrence Market lies just outside the Financial District, with a direct view towards the CN Tower via the Flatiron building.
A hub of fresh food, the market houses dozens of stalls run by local traders and producers to bring you the freshest and widest range of foods imaginable. Fruit and veg, meat , fish, cheeses and pulses all vie with deli counters, ethnic eatery stalls and the wares of local craftsmen selling jewellery, fabrics and much more.
There is an upper floor with a gallery overlooking the vaulted market floor, and h
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[24/06/2009] Built for the 1976 Olympics, and with a small amount of public debt still owing to this day, the Olympic Stadium is nicknamed ‘The Big Owe’ by locals and stands as a point of contention in all its concrete over exaggeration out in the Eastern suburbs of the City. Easily reached by Metro from all points, the Olympic site comprises the huge stadium, the Velodrome, now converted into a Biodome museum of Nature, and parkland.
The stadium itself houses an all purpose athletics track and a huge swimming centre, regularly used for championships and training by local teams. Atop the stadium, like a
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[23/06/2009] Situated on the Ile Notre Dame in the St Lawrence, the odd cruise ship of a building was built for the Expo 67 and is one of the ten largest in the world. Standing out like some forgotten concrete relic, it certainly looks to be past its design sell by date, but has a certain quirky appeal.
With five floors of varying size and layout, all clustered around a central Atrium full of lifts and elevators that also doubles as a performance stage, the Casino offers every gambling game generally available, including the popular Keno, Blackjack, Poker as well as more than 3200 slot machines, and is t
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[23/06/2009] Located on McGill College Avenue, in the courtyard outside the Laurentian Bank, this large sculpture by Raymond Mason depicts more than a dozen life sized figures in a cream toughened plastic atop a stone base.
The figures all look towards a point of light not shown in the sculpture, and the further from the front the figures stand, the darker their corresponding depiction becomes. Happy and hopeful figures at the front give way to lovers, fighters, pickpockets and then malformed figures behind an armed assailant right at the back as the base lowers in steps.
The sculpture is a an underr
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[23/06/2009] The Funicular links the Promenade by the Chateau Frontenac with the Lower Town nearly a hundred feet below. You can get there down the aptly named ‘Breakneck Stairs’, but you’d want to take a pleasant ride back up in this small but modern contrivance.
With a small ticket office at either end, and tickets costing less than 2 dollars, it’s a fun and convient way to access either part of the Old City. The views across the St Lawrence are spectacular, and the Lower Town roofs are displayed in all their well-preserved grandeur as you rush up or down to meet them.
Originally built in 1879, and
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[30/01/2009] Spanning the Ottawa river between Ontario and Quebec, the Royal Alexandra bridge remains an impressive feat of engineering. It carries road and foot passengers between Nepean Point, just below the National Art Gallery in Ottawa, across to Hull in Gatineau, usefully right beside the excellent Canadian Museum of Civilisation.
I should warn you that as a pedestrian, you will have to endure hundreds of yards of rickety wooden planks as you make your way across. Although the walkway is separated from the roadway by steel stanchions, the volume of traffic creates a light wobbling effect that comb
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[30/01/2009] If Parliament Hill is the beating heart of Ottawa, then Byward Market is its soul. A bustling throng of market traders and independent retailers, the whole Byward area, which extends several streets beyond the original market in each direction is a lively hub of trade.
Sited just off Sussex Drive with its government offices and embassies, and leading east to Cumberland Street, it retains the oldest Farmers Market in the Nation. The sounds of buskers and street hawkers fill the air, as does a steady stream of people ambling gently in and out of the side streets.
The market building itsel
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[30/01/2009] Not the most stunning of shopping centres. Little more than workmanlike in fact, but renovation works appear to be giving the Rideau Centre something of a facelift. Built and used mainly for its convenience, the shopping centre sits between the government and business hub of Parliament Hill and Downtown, and the trendier, more relaxed Byward area to the east of the Rideau Canal.
With access onto the streets below the Canal, and also on the first floor level of the Mackenzie King bridge crossing, the centre offers handy all-weather connections to the numerous buses that stop here on the coun
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[28/01/2009] A mecca of shopping, the Eaton Centre stands as a cathedral to consumerism, halfway up Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, and spanning from Dundas street at the top end, down to Bay Street where it joins with the Hudson Bay Trading Company store. At once a shopping destination and a place to catch some food or entertainment, the Eaton Centre adds to, rather than detracts from the overall experience of visiting Toronto, drawing in visitors and shoppers alike, and offering protection from the harsh winters outside.
With its sub-floor a part of the vast PATH network, the Eaton Centre rises 6 fl
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