After 20 years of promoting her Yucatecan culture, Beatriz Ceballos Poot will receive the 2022 Ohtli award for her work in Canada. While Mexico celebrates its independence, Ceballos Poot will be honored with the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ highest distinction. Ceballos Poot first came to Canada after graduating from Conalep in Mérida. Four months…
To celebrate Canada Day, the Mérida English Library will be serving up hot poutine on Friday morning from 10 to 12. Poutine is a dish from Quebec and is made of French fries and cheese curds topped with gravy. It is hard to overstate how big poutine is across Canada, with some going as far…
High-level meetings about how Mexico should respond to the crisis in Ukraine have been underway this week.
After nearly two years, the Canadian airline WestJet has begun to operate direct flights between Mérida and Toronto once again. The first of several scheduled winter flights arrived in Mérida’s international airport yesterday at 1:20 p.m. Westjet has scheduled weekly Tuesday flights between Toronto and Mérida until late March but says that it may extend…
Cue the poutine! As much as everyone in Mérida loves tacos, panuchos, and salbutes, the amount of international options for snacking and dining in the city continues to grow.
A Canadian man was found dead this morning inside a rental property on Calle 47 near La Plancha.
It’s a little late, but Santa Claus said he is needed now as he headed to Tizimín with gifts. Children in the community flocked around the bearded man as he handed out presents. The springtime Santa turned out to be a 78-year-old Montreal native, William Jioi, who is “on a mission to bring smiles to…
Two travelers were fined thousands of dollars after Transport Canada said they falsified their COVID-19 test results so they could fly home after a trip to Mexico. The passengers were told to pay $10,000 and $7,000 respectively, Transport Canada said, for making “a false declaration about their health status.” The two travelers “knowingly boarded a…
Ten passengers were blocked from boarding a flight from Cancun to Calgary for lacking the proper test for the coronavirus, WestJet Airlines said Thursday. Another eight vacationers were denied entry to a flight to Toronto from Cuba’s Holguin Airport, Air Canada reported. The actions occurred on the first day that Canada’s government required international passengers…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Canadians not to travel abroad this winter as the country’s largest city entered a 28-day lockdown. Trudeau specifically addressed Canadian “snowbirds,” many of whom travel to the United States and Mexico to escape the frigid north. He pointed out that hospital capacity, especially in the southern US, was stretched. “People…
Alex and Alejandra Grecu were supposed to be enjoying their new life in Cancun. Instead, the Canadian couple has spent months stranded in an Airbnb after they were prevented from driving across the U.S. border. The couple, married for four years, bought a house on the Yucatan Peninsula and sold their home in Ontario earlier…
Seats were still available this morning on a WestJet flight from Merida to Toronto Pearson as the Canadian government works to get its citizens home. Flight 2793 will depart Merida on Tuesday at 1:35 p.m., landing at 7:38. Canadians will be expected to pay a “responsible ticket price” for their flight home, Trudeau said. While…
Canada’s estimated three million retired citizens living abroad are on a path to receive improved service from the government when a death occurs.
Mexico’s new ambassador to Canada has started off his tenure with a strong message to mining countries operating on his home turf.
Ultra low-cost airline Swoop is adding routes to Mexico out of Hamilton’s John C. Munro International Airport, flying three times a week to Cancun and twice weekly to Puerto Vallarta.
“Timmy’s,” a bakery, sandwich and coffee chain near and dear to Canada’s collective heart, is joining Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks in Mexico.
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