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Niagara Falls Tourism has placed a full-page open letter in a Buffalo newspaper, inviting Americans to cross the bridge and celebrate with Canadians on Saturday, including witnessing Niagara Falls light up in the Bills' red, white and blue colors. The latest gesture in the face of the trade war comes after the NFL team played Canada's anthem at the recent home opener.
Niagara Falls Tourism has placed a full-page open letter in a Buffalo newspaper, inviting Americans to cross the bridge and celebrate with Canadians on Saturday, including witnessing Niagara Falls light up in the Bills' red, white and blue colours.
The latest gesture in the face of the trade war comes after the NFL team played Canada's anthem at the recent home opener. The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.
Buffalo Bills fans celebrate a touchdown against the New Orleans Saints at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, N.Y. , on Sept. 28, 2025. The playing earlier this month of the Canadian and U.S. anthems at the new stadium, shown in the background, is among the latest cross-border friendly gestures amid the current trade war. Amid a heated trade war, there's been lots of love between Ontario's Niagara region and Buffalo, N.Y.
In the latest show of camaraderie, Niagara Falls Tourism placed a full-page open letter in the Buffalo News on Friday, inviting Americans to cross the bridge and celebrate with border neighbours Ontario on Saturday night. That's when Niagara Falls will be lit up in the red, white and blue colours associated with the NFL's Buffalo Bills, accompanied by matching-coloured fireworks.
Sept. 17 home opener at the new Highmark StadiumVisit Buffalo also posted billboards across southern Ontario with the message, "O Canada, We're Still Singing it, Love Buffalo.
" On Sept. 16, the team posted a video on social media showing retired Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and former wide receiver Stevie Johnson completing some cross-border football catches along the Niagara River, tossing to each other from aboard distant ferries. Adam Stiles, interim president and CEO of Niagara Falls Tourism, noted the anthem tribute and other kind gestures coming from Buffalo.
Stiles said Canadians want to return some of that love and spread a message of coming together at a time"When you get down to that human level, people want to rally around that idea and those gestures," he told CBC News. WATCH | When Buffalo Bills played Canadian anthem ahead of their home opener:For the first time in the team's history, the Buffalo Bills played the Canadian national anthem ahead of their home opener against the Detroit Lions — a nod, the Bills say, to the thousands of Canadian fans who have crossed the border to watch them for decades.
In a news release, Stiles said “Buffalo’s welcome meant a great deal to Canadians, and we wanted to return that warmth. Our communities share much more than a border: we share friendships, families and a love of the Bills.
"Saturday is our way of saying thank you and reminding our American neighbours that they are always welcome in Niagara Falls, Canada. ” The special illumination lighting is set to take place between 10 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. ET, with fireworks from 10 p.m. to 10:05 p.m. Paul Forsyth is a St. Catharines-based CBC reporter covering communities in the Niagara Region.
He has decades of reporting experience in Niagara, having worked for Niagara This Week, the St. Catharines Standard and the Welland Tribune before joining CBC. You can reach him at paul.forsyth@cbc.ca. As Canada-U.S. relations sour, border towns of upstate New York fear damage will be permanentCanada-U.S. trade war takes centre stage at Toronto's annual Labour Day parade
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