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Some nutty stuff has come out of Ottawa in the last 150 years but cancelling New Year’s Eve celebrations because it’s too cold is certainly a new one for the history books.

Since Ottawa apparently is not hardy enough to host it maybe Canada should just hold it in Buffalo?

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Certainly none of the 44,592 in the Buffalo Bills stadium watching the World Junior classic showdown between USA and Canada were complaining about the frigid temperatures. In fact, many shirtless, were celebrating it.

Both American and Canadian hockey players didn’t seem to mind — putting on a memorable show in snow.

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That is what was supposed to happen in the nation’s capital on New Year’s Eve. But someone thinks it’s so freezing cold right now that we can’t have our kids play on our $5 million outdoor rink on Parliament Hill or let our musicians entertain us.

“Of course it’s a bit of a disappointment with this extreme cold weather but we have to deal with it and making sure that Canadians are safe and everything is well taken care of in terms of public health we decided to modify the celebrations,” Heritage Minister Melanie Joly told The Canadian Press.