Rideau Canal Skateway opens Sunday

It's once again time to lace up those skates: The National Capital Commission has announced a 2.7 km stretch of the Rideau Canal Skateway is set to open Sunday morning.

The skateway will officially open between Pretoria Bridge and the Bank Street Bridge, including Patterson Creek, at 8 a.m.

The opening is close to a week earlier than last season's when the skateway opened on Jan. 5, 2018 and more than two weeks earlier than the Jan. 14 opening in 2017.

This will be theskateway's49thseason.