Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skaters enjoy the Rideau Canal on New Year's Eve 2025, opening day of the 2025-26 season. The entire length of the skateway ...

The Rideau Canal Skateway has been reopened after it was shut down earlier this month due to warm weather. The entire length of the skateway reopened at 4 p.m. Friday, the National Capital Commission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The locks at the Rideau Canal. Last year, a skier attempted to jump over the Canal, earning a rebuke from Parks Canada. (Credit: ...

Tai How said he thought he broke his thumb — not his ankles, feet or legs — after gapping the Ottawa Locks of the Rideau Canal in a viral video that has stirred up a condemning statement from Parks ...

Parks Canada issued a warning and is increasing enforcement after a video circulating online shows someone ski jumping over the Rideau Canal National Historic Site in downtown Ottawa. The video posted ...

6:08 Ottawa’s outdoor adventures: Gatineau Park, paddleboarding, ziplining and more! Ottawa’s Rideau Canal is now fully open for ice skating, the National Capital Commission (NCC) says. The NCC, which ...

The entire length of the Rideau Canal Skateway is set to open Monday morning, the National Capital Commission says. As of 8 a.m., skaters will be able to travel the full 7.8 kilometres from the Rideau ...

Most years, the world's largest skating rink doesn't open until January The Rideau Canal Skateway will partially open to skaters at 8 a.m Wednesday, the National Capital Commission has announced. A ...

On the night before the Rideau Canal Skateway opened for the first time this season, I was lying awake in bed, as restless as a little kid trying to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. I couldn’t stop ...

Anthony Segala has been waiting for years to skate on the Rideau Canal. When he visited Ottawa as a 12-year-old for a hockey tournament, it was unavailable for the cold-weather pastime. Now, thanks to ...

The world’s largest skating rink is in Ontario, and it has opened early for the first time in seven years. On Dec. 31, just in time to ring in 2026, the 56th season of the Rideau Canal Skateway kicked ...

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