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By Agnes Cadieux, Ottawa Citizen, January 5, 2015

Now that the holidays are over, it won’t be long before the city plunges into the depths of the winter blahs. The gyms eventually thin out as drunken resolutions of a “healthier me” start to go by the wayside, and people give up on keeping their cars, boots, and travel bags salt-free. If we’re not hearing it yet, we will soon be subject to that all-too-familiar grumbling about too much snow, scraping the windows, or more often, about how cold it is. Well, this is Ottawa… Yet every year people stand huddled at the bus stops like groups of slighted blackbirds, or walk hastily from place to place, hunched over and wearing an expression that could melt a snowman. I say this because I’ve been in that group of blackbirds, and am guilty of melting my share of snowmen. But winter doesn’t have to be about treacherous road conditions or salt-stained pants; especially when Ottawa and the surrounding valley have so much to offer during the winter months. via Agnes Cadieux: Stop whining and enjoy winter | Ottawa Citizen.

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