Nimiq Park named in honour of Telesat

OTTAWA – The City of Ottawa has named its newest public park ‘Nimiq’ in recognition of Telesat’s contributions to the community and the global satellite services industry. Ottawa-based Telesat has used the word Nimiq, an Inuit word for an object or a force that binds things together, since 1999 as the name for part of its fleet of satellites serving North America. Telesat’s Nimiq fleet is used by Bell TV to provide Canadians with direct-to-home television via satellite. “Telesat is honored to be recognized in this way by the City of Ottawa and pleased to make financial contributions to the...