Ottawa Tourism has begun its first-ever Chinese-language tour guide training program in response to an increase in Chinese visitors to the national capital.
Mandarin a must for Ottawa tour guides
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Month: April 2014
McNabb Park gets $600,000 upgrade
A major upgrade to McNabb Park, which will see the construction of a skateboard park and the installation of new playground equipment in the Centretown green space, is set to begin within a few weeks.
City of Ottawa The proposed plan for upgrades to McNabb Park includes a skateboard park, community garden and new playground equipment.
Thousands of museum specimens just a click away
The Canadian Museum of Nature has launched a free online database that contains 710,000 different records of plants, animals, fossils and mineral specimens from its national collections.
Sparks St. bear forced to migrate
Kierra Jones, Centretown News
A year-long dispute over relocating the Sparks Street bear statue for a Stanley Cup monument has finally been resolved.After nearly a year of negotiations, the bitter dispute over a well-known Centretown statue has been resolved.