Several weeks after warm weather forced it to close, the Rideau Canal Skateway should be reopening Sunday just in time for the final days of Winterlude.
A stretch of the canal between Bank Street and the Pretoria Bridge is slated to open at noon, the National Capital Commission (NCC) said in a Saturday evening post on social media.
But there’s a catch. In a update on Sunday morning, the NCC said that an overnight snowfall blocked crews from flooding the skateway.
Because of that, while the ice is “thick enough to make it safe to be on the Skateway” when it opens at noon, the NCC said the
