This is actually a really awesome thing!
Doors-open Ottawa is a weekend when all kinds of neat places open their doors and let us, the ‘unwashed masses’, peek in!
OK – so, many of the places are quite familiar: the Hindu Temple, the Ottawa Mosque, the Gurdwara, many of the Churches….
But – a lot of the really awesome science labs are open, too! From CANMET (see granite blocks crushed before your eyes – and get a fragment as a souvenier) to the bug labs (Canada’s ONLY nematode taxonomist explains the intricacies of his profession – on a tour guided by one of Marc Garneau’s distant cousins!)
This is a really awesome thing!
The only criticism? Putting it on the last weekend before high-school exams keeps a lot of young people who could benefit from learning about the ‘reality’ of various choices in education/professions because they have to study – in order to have high-enough grades to make it into schools that prepare them for these types of careers!
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 