After nearly 700 days without proper ice, the Rideau Canal has opened for skating again. After initially announcing the skateway would open at 9 a.m. Sunday, the National Capital Commission (NCC) ...

The NCC started the process of flooding the Rideau Canal near Bank Street in Ottawa on Monday. (Credit: TONY CALDWELL) Crews have taken to the Rideau Canal to begin flooding operations ahead of the ...

Ottawa Citizen reporter Natasha Baldin got out on her blades first thing. The skateway is her happy place, she says, logging some 120 kilometres on it last season. (Credit: JULIE OLIVER) On the night ...

The challenges this year, in particular, were the closure of the Rideau Canal Skateway — usually one of the most popular ...

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 ...

Preparations are ongoing to reopen Canada’s iconic Rideau Canal for skating this winter, but with a warm, wet and snowy ...

Skaters will be able to enjoy an extra 800 metres of ice on the Rideau Canal Skateway starting on Saturday morning. A total of 4.2 kilometres will be open for skating as of 8 a.m. Saturday, as the ...

The Rideau Canal, in Ottawa, is the world's longest skating rink Despite frosty weather this week, the world's longest skating rink will be closed because of a warmer-than-average temperatures. During ...

As part of the NSERC Alliance grant, which leveraged funding from the National Capital Commisssion, the Principal Investigator Shawn Kenny consults with the National Capital Commission on the project ...

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 ...