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Originally Posted by Uhuniau
Winter carnivals are withering almost everywhere in Canada, even the cities and towns and rural areas that have more reliably wintery winters than Ottawa.
Depending on the pandemic situation in the coming winter, this could be an excuse to re-invent them as a way to get people doing activities outside, in a safe and social way, that helps with both commerce and pandemic mitigation.
If the bar and restaurant industry wants to make it through to a vaccine or whatever else will get us back to "normal", they have to be considering ways of winterizing their industry, and quick.
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There are all good points, though on the topic of winter carnivals there are cities around the world whose winters aren't as cold or snowy as Ottawa's and still have winter festivals. A lot of them are melt-proofed or aren't even dependent on cold and snow at all. I think the future for Winterlude lies in a reorientation towards something of that nature.
In that, if it's cold, we're good. And if it's mild, we're good too.
I know that the government and organizers have been thinking about this already, but there doesn't appear to be much in the way of forward-looking changes thus far.
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