It may be most famed for its hot mineral waters, which were revered as the "healing place" by the Sts'ailes First Nations, but the friendly vacation town offers something for the whole family.
With water on three sides of the downtown core, beaches up and down the Burrard Inlet, and urban bays like False Creek and Deep Cove all over the place, exploring our city from the ocean might be the best way to do it.
Some 80 percent of humans have never flown in an airplane and yet, the University of Ottawa's Ryan Katz-Rosene calculates, the aviation industry accounts for about 4.6 percent of anthropogenic climate change.
