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Canadians’ car trips to US decline for first half of 2025
Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 11, 2025
Let us read it for you. Listen now. Your browser does not support the audio element. Canadians are committed to ditching U.S. travel, taking the fewest number of car trips there in the year's first half since at least 2017, excluding the pandemic....
Americans Are Losing Their Minds Over Canada's Latest Tourism Campaign For Obvious Reasons
The Travel
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July 10, 2025
It’s not every day you see a tourism ad go viral. Since most rely on flashy wide-angle drone shots, generic taglines, and upbeat music, many viewers tend to forget about them as quickly as they start. But one Canadian campaign aimed at American...
Air Canada Further Expands its Latin America Network
Breaking Travel News
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July 11, 2025
Air Canada has announced it is further expanding its winter 2025-26 network by resuming non-stop service to Lima, Peru with twice weekly flights from both Montreal and Toronto. The airline is also adding three new routes to Central America and...
Walt Disney World Announces Holiday Event Dates
Breaking Travel News
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July 11, 2025
From November 7 to December 21, Walt Disney World Resort will transform into a winter wonderland as festive separately ticketed holiday celebrations return to Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom Park. Guests can look forward to the return...
Wish you were still here: what happened to the one-hit wonders of 80s package holiday pop?
The Guardian
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July 11, 2025
Until 1982, if you wanted to go on holiday, you had to go to a high street travel agent, who would generally make a bunch of phone calls and tell you to come back later. Then Thomson Holidays introduced the first computerised booking system and...
Quebec trolls Trump’s America with new tourist campaign
The Independent
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July 11, 2025
A tourism board in Quebec, Canada has poked fun at the US with its new campaign aimed at getting Americans to visit. The advert, called “Come Hug It Out”, was released last month by Eastern Township Tourism office and shows an American...
Working conditions in Spain's tourism sector: precariousness and exhausting working hours
Equal Times
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July 11, 2025
In several regions of Spain, as in other European countries, tourism seems to have reached a turning point. Although the discontent with mass tourism in coastal areas or cities such as Barcelona has been intensifying over the last decade, it was...
Qatari money is quietly fuelling anti-Israel rhetoric in Canada, new report warns
The Canadian Jewish News
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July 11, 2025
While envoys from Israel and Hamas met this week in Qatar to negotiate the latest peace effort for the release of the hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza, a new report warns that Canada should pay closer attention to the millions of dollars in...
Ontario colleges slash 10,000 jobs as international enrolment plummets in Canada after study permit cap
The Indian Express
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July 11, 2025
In what is being noted as one of the largest mass layoffs in Ontario’s education sector, nearly 10,000 college faculty and staff positions have been eliminated or are slated for cuts due to a deepening crisis in funding and student...
Asylum claims in Canada soaring as US tightens immigration policies
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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July 11, 2025
A growing number of migrants in the U.S. are heading north to seek asylum, even as Canada adopts increasingly restrictive immigration policies of its own. During the first six days of July, Canadian officials at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border...
Coal, the lone survivor of Canada’s parliamentary cat colony, dies
The Straits Times
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July 11, 2025
OTTAWA, Ontario – Coal, the last surviving member of a colony of cats that thrived for decades outside Canada’s parliament and became popular with tourists, has died. He was believed to be 17. A Facebook page devoted to Coal said he had had an...
Trump escalates pressure on Canada with 35% tariff threat
El País
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July 11, 2025
Donald Trump’s tariff puppet show continued Thursday night with an unexpected plot twist: a bombshell announcement that the U.S. president had sent yet another letter, this time to Canada — its preferred trading partner — threatening to impose a...
US State Dept issues travel warning for Americans visiting Iran
The Siasat Daily
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July 11, 2025
Washington: The US Department of State announced a new awareness campaign warning Americans, ‘especially Iranian Americans,’ about the continuing severe risks of travel to Iran. “US citizens should NOT travel to Iran for any reason. US citizens in...
Our Jewish-Canadian identity
Jewish Independent
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July 11, 2025
Before Passover, a relative of ours in New Jersey asked if we would have problems getting Manischewitz wine. I told her all would be fine. Even though US alcohol had been taken off Manitoba’s shelves, we would just buy other brands of kosher wine...
A Canadian man died in ICE custody. Now, his family is searching for answers
The Globe and Mail
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July 11, 2025
The bedroom was ready. Pillows had been neatly placed. Johnny Noviello’s family was preparing for his return to Quebec after nearly four decades in Florida. But in 2023, he was convicted of several drug-related charges – a turn of events that...
Tourism minister revisits the Gold Rush in Barkerville
Prince George Citizen
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July 11, 2025
Spencer Chandra Herbert takes in the sights at one of the area's most popular attractions Barkerville was recently visited by an enthusiastic and influential guest. That guest was Minister of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport Spencer Chandra...
'Switch Scottish whisky exports from America to Canada over Trump tariffs'
The Herald (Scotland)
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July 11, 2025
The Scottish Green co-leader hopeful's comments come as the United States is currently the largest export destination for Scotch whisky by value, worth £971m in 2024. Canada does not yet rank in the top ten export destination, with exports by...
NHL trade rumors: Canadiens probing $50,000,000 Lightning forward to bolster top-six
Sportskeeda
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July 11, 2025
The Montreal Canadiens are actively looking to bolster their top-six forward group with a particular focus on adding a second-line center or a high-end winger to complement their young core, including Nick Suzuki, Ivan Demidov, and Cole Caufield....
MT Sobek Appoints Seth Heald as New CEO to Lead Adventure Travel Expansion
Adventure Travel News
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July 11, 2025
MT Sobek, the pioneering name in adventure travel since 1969, proudly announces the appointment of Seth Heald as its new Chief Executive Officer. Heald, a seasoned leader with over two decades of entrepreneurial and operational experience in...
This charming waterfront small city in BC was dubbed one of Canada's best summer destinations
Narcity
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July 10, 2025
This small city in B.C. is brimming with charm, from its historic buildings along cobblestone streets, to lush gardens and waterfront walkways. It's a place that feels like a postcard come to life, and is a must-visit spot in the summer. The...