It was supposed to be a fun activity to cap off a holiday sleepover party.
On Dec. 27, a group of cousins headed to Mooney’s Bay, a neighbourhood in Ottawa, to go tobogganing.
Eleven-year-old Josée Assal was giddy with anticipation. She had moved to the nation’s capital with her parents and two older siblings from Lebanon six months earlier and was enthralled by winter.
A few weeks earlier, the girl had danced outside after seeing her first snowfall, and now she was going sledding for the first time.
But the event ended in tragedy. Around 2:50 p.m. that day, paramedics responded to a
