Morden’s community foundation is putting another $14,000 back into the community this fall.

The Morden Area Foundation recently allocated another $14,130 in grants to agencies serving the Morden community.

Board chair Kathy Ritchie said they were pleased to offer support for Morden’s senior residents along with young families, tourists and paleontologists...   ...This autumn’s grant allocations also include a $1,000 grant that was selected by volunteer of the year Reg Braun.

Braun supports the efforts of the Morden Chamber of Commerce and the Corn & Apple Festival to co-ordinate their office space and make room for more community non-profit and charity groups including the foundation. He directed his honorary $1,000 grant to the combined corporation that owns and manages the former RM office at 379 Stephen Street.

Community foundation grants can only go to recognized charitable groups, so the grant will be set aside and paid out when the corporation achieves charitable status.

The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre is Morden’s most significant tourism resource, along with its role as a centre for scientific activity, and it also received funding.

http://www.pembinatoday.ca/2012/11/05/foundation-giving-back-to-morden

Although he has hunted and trapped wild creatures all his life, Ron Spence has a special reverence for wolves.

So, too, did most of the nearly 100 people in attendance at the recent two-day First International Wolf and Carnivore Conference in Thompson, which is seeking to be known as the Wolf Capital of Canada.

"Wolves are the spirit of the land," said Spence, a councillor with the nearby Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation (formerly Nelson House), who worked for 15 years as a Manitoba conservation officer and was a speaker at the conference...      ... It was, and is, all part of an attempt by a few civic-minded people to have the city 750 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg recognized as the Wolf Capital of Canada -- similar to Churchill's brand as the Polar Bear Capital of the World.

A discussion paper, Building a Wolf Economy, prepared by conference organizer Volker Beckmann, states that over the past 20 years, there has been a renewed interest in wolves as a top predator and ecologically important species in Europe and North America.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/thompson-puts-wolves-to-work-177425721.html

HALIFAX - Ottawa, the Atlantic provinces and tourism industry associations will spend $19.95 million over the next three years in an effort to boost tourism in the region.

Bernard Valcourt, the minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, says the money is aimed at increasing awareness of the region among travellers from the United States and United Kingdom.

Valcourt says the funding will focus on marketing and advertising, with an emphasis on social media.

The federal government will provide about $10 million, the provinces $6.6 million and tourism industry associations will offer the rest.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/Atlantic+provinces+renew+three+year+tourism+partnership+million/7499597/story.html

The B.C. government might have scrapped Tourism BC just three years ago, but it has now created a new Crown corporation to market the province as a tourism destination.

Premier Christy Clark announced Monday the opening of Destination BC, which will target the expanding market for visitors to B.C. from Asia.

"With Asia's middle class rapidly expanding and becoming more and more interested in tourism opportunities, this is our time to get out there and start marketing British Columbia," said Clark on Monday morning in Vancouver.

The move reverses a decision by the Gordon Campbell Liberal government in 2009 to scrap Tourism BC. That Crown corporation was folded into the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Arts.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/11/05/bc-destination-bc-tourism.html

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says Canada's closest ally and trading partner, the United States, has replaced Europe as the biggest threat to the domestic economy.

The minister made the comment Monday evening on a conference call after wrapping up two days of meetings with his G20 counterparts in Mexico City, which had a mood he described as serious but not "doom and gloom."

Europe's troubled finances and the U.S. fiscal cliff have both been hanging over the global economy for months, but Flaherty said the U.S. situation now potentially packs the bigger potential wallop.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/flaherty-says-g20-mood-not-doom-and-gloom-but-us-must-avoid-fiscal-cliff-177379421.html

Efforts by the P.E.I. government to expand the tourism season outside the summer months are having a limited impact, government statistics show.

The tourism business was described by the industry as disappointing this year. The news does not get any better in looking at long-term trends. The number of room nights sold in September 2012 was the lowest for a September since the province began releasing statistics in 2006, down 14 per cent over that period.

Some operators say the province's current strategy to boost numbers is only working in Charlottetown, and there is some evidence to back that up. It's the areas outside Charlottetown where numbers have been dropping. The east and west of the province have seen business drop more than 20 per cent since 2006. The boundaries of the area measured around Charlottetown changed in 2008, but since that time business has fallen only 0.9 per cent in the area.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2012/11/06/pei-shoulder-fall-tourism-season-584.html

SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - It is one of the icons of America, the backdrop to a thousand stories — the place where Tony Soprano's nightmares unfolded, where Nucky Thompson built his "Boardwalk Empire", where Snooki and The Situation brought reality TV to the ocean's edge and where Springsteen conjured a world of love and loss and cars and carnival lights and a girl named, incongruously, Sandy.

But after the storm of the same name passed through this week, the seaside towns of the Jersey Shore, a place that popular culture has picked to exude Americanness, have been upended, and some of the boardwalks have been pushed into the sea.

And those who live there, those who spent their childhood weekends there and those who experience its stories from afar are asking different versions of the same question: What happens now?

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/travel/roller-coaster-in-the-ocean-shattered-boardwalks-will-the-jersey-shore-ever-be-the-same-177258821.html

(An article published originally in the WFP, November '61)

Ross Smyth, supervisor of the speakers' service of Trans-Canada Air Lines public relations department in Montreal, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday after the final banquet of the Manitoba Tourist Association's annual convention at the Highwayman Hotel. A feature of the convention, which opens at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Highwayman, will be discussion of the possibility of amalgamation or some form of affiliation with the Manitoba Travel and Convention Association. Representatives of the travel group will attend the tourist association convention to discuss joining forces to bring all tourist promotion apart from government projects under one organization. Other speakers will include W. O. Organ of the travel and publicity branch of the department of industry and commerce; an RCMP representative; Burt Kooyman of the fisheries branch of the department of mines and natural resources; D. G. Malaher of the game branch of mines and resources, and George Collins, deputy minister of highways.

Complete: LANSING, Mich. - Kid Rock fans can hear one of the songs off the Detroit musician's upcoming album on Michigan's official tourism website.

Although "Rebel Soul" isn't being released until Nov. 19, one of its tunes, "Detroit, Michigan," can be heard in its entirety on the Pure Michigan site, michigan.org.

The fourth track on "Rebel Soul," ''Detroit, Michigan," references a number of the city's music stars, including Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin and Eminem as well as other big names, such as Rosa Parks and Henry Ford.

Born Robert Ritchie in a suburb northeast of Detroit, Kid Rock continues to live in the area and is an outspoken booster of the city and state.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/travel/fans-can-listen-to-new-kid-rock-song-detroit-michigan-on-states-tourism-website-177263921.html