The Days Inn by Wyndham Brantford hotel boasts 75 newly renovated hotel rooms in the Brantford’s north end, close to Highway 403 and surrounded by familiar restaurants and shopping. Their budget friendly rates are an affordable option for visitors passing through the city on business or leisure travelers looking for a central location to grab a bite to eat and get a good night’s rest. Choose from spacious one and two bed standard rooms or suites with added amenities, each featuring ...

We know sport can be a significant driving force to the economic recovery post-COVID-19. Sport Tourism Canada works on behalf of all sport tourism players to see this vibrant sector truly be ready to start ‘Bouncing Back’. The sport community’s perspective on COVID-recovery is critical to begin Canada’s response and preparation for a sport hosting and economic reboot. Sport Tourism Canada (STC) is currently conducting a research project, in conjunction with Des...

The holiday season reminds us of wonderful memories from years past, and I’m sure many of those are annual traditions for lots of you. Here in Brantford, some of those holiday traditions include the JCI Santa Claus Parade, Branford Lights at Glenhyrst, and the annual holiday concert performed by the Brantford Symphony Orchestra. It’s around this time of year that Brantford Symphony Orchestra (BSO) hosts their annual holiday concert, with More Christmas Bells in 2019 and A Christmas ...

Each year the Brant County SPCA releases their Paws in Time calendar and this year it’s extra special. Wanting to find a way to highlight all of the amazing efforts of frontline and essential workers here in Brantford since March of this year, the SPCA decided to feature just a few of these incredible heroes on the pages of their 2021 calendar. Each frontline worker pictured is photographed with either their personal pet or SPCA alumni member. Pets are a source of companionship and comfor...

Hamilton Halton Brant Regional Tourism Association (HHBRTA), also known as the Heart of Ontario or “RTO3,” is an independent, industry-led, not-for-profit organization. The organization is responsible for working with tourism partners to enhance and grow this region's tourism products and marketing activities, with the intent of increasing visitors, generating more economic activity, creating more tourism jobs and sustainability, capturing unique product clusters and integrating...

Best Western Brantford Hotel and Conference Centre, located at 19 Holiday Drive, proudly provides visitors with comfortable accommodations, delicious meals at the on-site restaurant, and a dedicated event planning team to help plan successful meetings and events. Conveniently located on Highway 403 and close to restaurants, shopping and dining in Brantford, corporate travelers and families alike can enjoy ease of access to public transit, walking trails, and major roadways so they can explore a...

Only one club in Ontario can boast about having the best facility in the Province and Brant Artistic Swimming Club (BASC) can. Not only is the Wayne Gretzky Sports Centre an incredible facility in general, its 65m pool has allowed the athletes of BASC to maintain training regimens that are almost comparable to those pre-COVID. Formerly known as synchronized swimming, the sport adopted the name artistic swimming in 2017. While artistic swimming is a team sport, many people don’t realize tha...