Skateway closing at 10 p.m. Wednesday night

If you didn’t lace up the skates and get out on the Rideau Canal Skateway this week, you’ve missed your opportunity to skate virtually the entire distance — at least for now.
Three days after opening a section that pushed the total ice available to seven kilometres (of the Skateway’s 7.8-km length), the National Capital Commission announced that the ice surface would be closed as of 10 p.m. Wednesday night.
“Snow, freezing rain or water on the ice surface may hide s