For the first time since moving to Ottawa in late 2000, I was out there nearly every day this season, lacing up my skates at the chalet on Patterson Creek…
Alison Stine
This was the year that the boys died in Appalachian Ohio, where the water runs red. Orange red, down from the old mountain mines and out of the ground. Such a distinctive, vivid shade. Fire-blaze bright so ubiquitous, elementary school children in my county don’t color the water on their pictures blue.
They color it red.
In 2014, two young men boys, really died in the water, weeks apart: one in the river, one in the overflow creek of Dow Lake, which feeds, thinly, into the river. The boy in the river was missing for over a month. The boy in the creek: missing not long at all.
OTTAWA Skiing, skating and visiting museums are some of the options available to do in Ottawa, eastern Ontario and western Quebec this weekend. Here’s a look at things you can do with the family now that the stay-at-home order has been lifted for the region.
MUSEUMS Museums in Ottawa and Gatineau are reopening as the COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed. Canadian Museum of History is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Visit www.historymuseum.ca Canadian War Museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Visit https://www.warmuseum.ca/ Canadian Museum of Nature is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit www.nature.ca
The Rideau Canal Skateway is seeing fewer daily visitors this winter, as it appears residents respected public health directions to exercise close to home during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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The Ottawa Citizen’s longtime editorial cartoonist Alan King once described his craft as the “scruffy offspring of art and journalism.”
King was a master of that unruly child, both entertaining and maddening readers during his 17 years as lead cartoonist. His richly illustrated ink drawings regularly skewered politicians, pomposity and hypocrisy.
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“Editorial cartoons,” he once wrote, “speak louder, more sharply, and with less forethought than most forms of newspaper commentary: It is their glaring defect and great advantage.”