Stay off the melting skateway, NCC warns

Stay off the “dangerous” Rideau Canal for now, but soon you’ll be able to canoe it.
Spring operations start March 25 to turn the world’s largest skating rink over to boaters for the 2019 navigation season, the National Capital Commission said Friday.
They’ll have an effect on the ice surface which is melting fast over icy water that’s between one metre to more than four metres deep on the length spanning Dow’s Lake and downtown.
“Water on the ice s