This is our igloo! :) we made it for and with our 3 year old. He loves it!

Our son, his wife and our 20 month old little grandaughter were getting a bit chilly in their home as their outdoor furnace unit began acting up for several days. My son decided to go and purchase a carbon monoxide detector just to be sure the air in the house from the furnace was safe and plugged it in. The detector started going off within hours detecting there was carbon monoxide in their home. They had to shut the furnace off because it was unsafe and were trying to keep warm during this major artic blast with 3 small space heaters as a new furnace was being decided on. A huge and grateful thank you to the guys at Syles heating and cooling who braved the freezing temps of -18C and -40 windchills outside Monday to quickly install a whole new outdoor furnace unit so my son and his family could have safe heating again in their home. Soooo grateful for that carbon monoxide detector that likely saved their lives.

Thank you to the man on Ouellette and Wyandotte today waiting for the Ottawa 4 bus at around 3:15... My buggy was to wide to fit through the path the was half shovelled to get on the bus and you helped me carry my sons buggy over the 3 foot snow bank onto the bus... Very much appreciated... U have been spotted!!!

My daughter made me a snow rat.

I was down checking out the river after the storm and could not resist taking this picture if 3 little snowman someone created on a picnic table lol

My daughter (almost 11) had a bad experience with the health unit when she was 4 that terrified her of dentists to this day! The only way to get her in a chair was to drug her....but I didn't want her to have to be drugged to go so we tried a new dentist that turned out to make my daughter worse with her fears...I will NEVER go there again...so today I bring my daughter for her second apt with a new dentist Dr.Tenzer!! (First one was for xrays etc) the care his staff and himself showed my daughter in one visit took away amost all fears she has of dentists!! He was so patient with her!! She told ne next visit I don't need to be in the room! This is music to my ears...coming from a little girl once terrified, she wants to do it by herself...in only the third visit coming up!!!

Thanks from the bottom of my heart...I didn't think it was possible!!

A very grateful mom

To Hotel Dieu Malden Park campus:

Please stop allowing patients to smoke outside the building near the entrance, and under the canopy. Besides being illegal to smoke near an entrance to a public building, families visiting their loved ones do not want to walk by a cloud of smoke every time.

Snowmen everywhere, I saw this earlier today near the U of Windsor.