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Must-haves for ice-skating

January 10, 2013
Split guards

Split guards are designed specifically to help you move between the locker room and the ice without damaging your blades. It’s recommended you have one for each pair of skates you own.

$6.99, at Canadian Tire

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Ice skating

It is probably the most famous Canadian winter sport and also the most accessible for the whole family. Let’s go skating!

It’s wintertime, let’s get moving!

Winter is boring when we don’t make it our friend. Placing winter in a different light could make it much better.

Tame winter

Skiing, seeing your breath, snowflakes, cute mittens and silent nights… Winter is not that bad after all.

Winter joys

Whether we like it or not, winter is a part of us. The most enthusiastic will make the most of it and go skiing, skating or tobogganing, while the others will lock themselves indoors and complain about the crazily cold weather.


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