This year’s edition of Winterlude, Ottawa’s winter festival, will feature some nation-building celebrations that are sure to warm hearts with pride – despite the frigid temperatures.
Winterlude to honour Macdonald, flag
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Month: January 2015
Centennial school vies for playground funds
Centennial is one of 22 schools vying for funds for a new playground from the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. The board has allocated $300,000 this year toward improving play areas.
“Back in the ‘80s, we built a bunch of play structures under ministry funding. Once they get to the point where they’re deemed unsafe, we pull them out,” says manager of facilities Peter Wright, adding that the average lifespan of a playground is about 25 years.
Frank magazine criticized for republishing ‘hurtful’ cartoons
The head of a downtown Ottawa Islamic social agency has criticized the local satirical magazine Frank for republishing controversial cartoons from France’s Charlie Hebdo depicting the Prophet Muhammad – the trigger for the deadly terrorist strikes at the office of the Paris weekly earlier this month.
Climate change will melt ice time on Rideau Canal
Justine Carr, Centretown News
Global warming will significantly reduce skating time on the Rideau Canal in the future.Rising temperatures will shrink ice time on the Rideau Canal in coming decades, according to research in the journal Nature Climate Change.