One of Canada's treasured winter traditions is ice skating through downtown Ottawa on the Rideau Canal. Right in the heart of Canada's capital, it's the longest naturally frozen skating rink in ...

Ottawa, Ontario, is often overlooked for Montreal and Toronto, but it's the perfect summer break for both nature and city ...

It has been too warm in Ottawa, Canada for the iconic Rideau Canal Skateway to properly freeze. The city is in the grips of its third-warmest winter ever recorded, according to Environment Canada.

While people in the Ottawa area were reluctant to admit it, the announcement on Friday was widely expected: For the first time since its creation 52 years ago, the Rideau Canal Skateway, which ...

Mild winter temperatures and excess snow make the Rideau Canal off-limits, hitting the city’s tourism and sparking gloom among residents in Canada’s capital.

Canada's Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa is closed because of a lack of ice Ottawa's beloved skating canal has failed to ice over properly for the first time in its history.

Skaters eager to take on the full Rideau Canal Skateway don’t have much longer to wait. The National Capital Commission (NCC) has announced that the full 7.8-kilometre route will open on ...

This winter, the Rideau Canal Skateway never opened. This can be attributed to warmer temperatures and twice the typical snowfall when compared with the climate normal from 1981-2010 .

Shae Davies was wearing a smile almost as wide as the Rideau Canal Skateway early Saturday, laughing at herself for being a “stereotypical” Canadian. When the National Capital Commission ...

LEILA FADEL, HOST: The canal running through the Canadian capital of Ottawa had welcomed skaters for more than 50 years. But this year, for the first time, the commission that manages the world's ...