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CP24 Toronto's Breaking News Ontario man rescued after canoe capsizes in chilly Lake Erie CTV News LONG POINT, Ont. -- A man who spent a half hour in the frigid waters of Lake Erie when his canoe capsized in Norfolk County, Ont., has been ... Flag as irrelevant

Fanshawe Conservation Area opens for the season London Community News The Upper Thames River Conservation Authority employs over 70 full time and ... staff to provide quality outdoor recreational opportunities in southwestern Ontario. ... An annual pass gives access to all threeconservation areas. Flag as irrelevant

Bridge Under Troubled Waters: Canoe Crosses Flooded River NBCNews.com Joe Keating pulls his son Joe along Willow Road through the flooded Otonabee River near Peterborough,Ontario on Friday, April 18. Spring run off is ... Flag as irrelevant

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A Message from Mr. Jack De Wit OTC  President

Dear Members - Let me say this has been a great year for retaining and acquiring new members to the OTC.

Thanks to the new groups, such as Short Hills Cycling Club, North Bay Mattawa Conservation Authority and Marathon. There are too many new members to list them all here, so I'd just like to say thanks to all of you. New partners like you revitalize our organization; and as a board member and trail volunteer it's great to see OTC supporting new trail groups!

We also rely on renewing members, like Park to Park Trail Association, Essex Region CA, London, Toronto and Niagara. Thanks to you all of you as well. Through your support the OTC has nearly 200 members!!

However I am writing to ask you to make a timely dues renewal, many existing members are in arrears. While payment of membership dues is not the best lead story, we are working to balance our budget and your renewal will do this!

Through your support we are able to have an office, apply for grants, etc. The OTC travels to many communities, places like Georgian Bay, Niagara, Toronto, Prince Edward County, Ottawa, etc. to assist communities with trail development.

"Having OTC in town to assist with guidance as to the elements of master planning, risk management, trails training and getting planners and users together made a real difference to the major trails in our area." Tracey - Niagara Falls, Ontario.

Some of you have renewed your commitment to OTC via e-mail or by phone. Some of you have re-affirmed your intention to renew on more than one occasion. However, we are at year end and we need your membership dollars to meet our commitments.

At this late date I would ask you to e-mail Patrick if your cheque has been mailed, use paypal or call the office and they'll take a credit card number over the phone. We are trying to complete as many renewal deposits by March 31 as possible.

We do appreciate your support and I hope you'll join in keeping OTC involved as the important trails community organization it has become.

Sincerely, Jack De Wit, President.

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BlackburnNews.com London snowmobiler found dead north of city London Community News - Police are urging snowmobilers to stay on marked trailsafter a 50-year-old ... According to the Middlesex County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) ... Flag as irrelevant

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Cycling crashes up to almost 200 Waterloo Region-wide | Your online newspaper for New ... Your online newspaper for New Hamburg, Ontario ⋅ dcoxson WATERLOO REGION – As the region and area municipalities shell out millions of dollars for cycling infrastructure, one measure of how well the ... Flag as irrelevant __________________________________________________________________________________ Manitoulin Expositor OFSC brings back no cost Try Our Trails Permit Manitoulin Expositor ONTARIO— Last winter, almost 11,000 Ontarians tested OFSC snowmobile trailswith a no cost 'Try Our Trails Permit' affixed to their sleds. Flag as irrelevant ___________________________________________________________________________________ Yonge Street - Toronto City's chief planner to talk about her favourite subject: the value ofwalking to school Yonge Street - Toronto Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto's chief planner, will be talking about her favourite subject, walking to school, at Walk Toronto's annual general meeting ... Flag as irrelevant

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A surprising boost in cycling infrastructure in TorontoBoston Globe As a Torontonian, I'd like to point out that the situation in our city concerningcycling and our colorful mayor, Rob Ford, is more nuanced than your Dec. See all stories on this topic » AS A Torontonian, I’d like to point out that the situation in our city concerning cycling and our colorful mayor, Rob Ford, is more nuanced than your Dec. 15 Ideas article describes (“A new menace to freedom: the bike”). Ford’s anticycling rhetoric has not matched up to his administration’s actions advancing cycling infrastructure, which have been surprisingly impressive. Toronto has embarked on the biggest expansion of separated cycle tracks in the city’s history under the supervision of a suburban, non-bicycle-riding conservative, Councilor Denzil Minnan-Wong, with Ford’s acquiescence. The left in Toronto was firmly in power for the eight years before Ford was elected, and it was unable to advance a network of separated cycle tracks in our downtown. If you look at two of the world’s leading cities, the biggest expansion of cycling infrastructure in London and New York has occurred under conservative mayors — respectively, Boris Johnson (not quite as colorful as Ford) and Michael Bloomberg (more sedate). A. Milliken Heisey Toronto

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A French version of this message is included below. La version française de ce message se trouve ci-dessous. Informational Webinars for EnAbling Change Applicants Please join staff from the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario for an informative webinar that will provide insight into applying for this year’s EnAbling Change Program. Aimed at potential program applicants, the webinar will cover the parameters of the program, the basics of the Grants Ontario application portal, and a question and answer period with ADO staff who evaluate proposals. Please join us on one of two dates: ·  Thursday December 12, 2013, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. ·  Tuesday January 14, 2014, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. To join the webinar please visit the link below: ontario-ca.adobeconnect.com/r4e4zocusc2/ To submit an application or for more information please visit Grants Ontario: www.grants.gov.on.ca/GrantsPortal/en/OntarioGrants/GrantOpportunities/PRDR006997 EnAbling Change Program contact information: Phone: 416-212-1033 TTY: 416-326-0148 Toll-free TTY: 1-888-335-6611 Fax: 416-325-9620 Email: enablingchange@ontario.ca Webinaires d'information pour les organismes demandeurs Joignez-vous au personnel de la Direction générale de l'accessibilité pour l'Ontario (DGAO) pour un webinaire d'information qui vous permettra de mieux comprendre la démarche à suivre pour demander une subvention au titre du programme InterActions pour le changement pour 2014. Ce webinaire qui s'adresse aux demandeurs potentiels traitera des paramètres du programme, des principales composantes du portail de demande de financement de Subventions Ontario. Il comprendra également une période de questions à laquelle participeront les membres du personnel de la DGAO chargés d'évaluer les propositions. Joignez-vous à nous le mardi 14 janvier 2014, de 14 h à 15 h. Pour prendre part au webinaire, veuillez consulter le lien ci-après : ontario-ca.adobeconnect.com/ecpfr/ Pour présenter une demande : http://www.grants.gov.on.ca/GrantsPortal/fr/OntarioGrants/GrantOpportunities/PRDR007000.html Coordonnées du programme InterActions pour le changement : Téléphone : 416 212-1033 ATS : 416 326-0148 ATS sans frais : 1 888 335-6611 Télécopieur : 416 325-9620 Adresse courriel : enablingchange@ontario.ca Insurance companies get proactive, council hearsNorthumberland Today Rowden brought the news from a Conservation Ontario meeting. ... "They are trying to be proactive and working with conservation authorities, planning ... See all stories on this topic » BlackburnNews.com - Huron County Promotes Active Transportation Chatham-Kent, London & Area, Midwestern Ontario, Sarnia Lambton, Windsor Essex ... Related Itemsactive transportationcyclinghuron countytrails · Tweet · Pin ... See all stories on this topic » Citi Bike Action Plan Aims to Beat Winter StormsDNAinfo Citi Bike operators have drawn up a blueprint for how to move thousands of bikes from ... Toronto's system has been in place for two years now, Egan said, and it ... See all stories on this topic »

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The 2015 Ontario Special Olympics Winter Games has officially been announced, ... speed skating, figure skating, curling, downhill and cross-country skiing.

See all stories on this topic » Man fined for illegally harvesting treesLOCAL2 Sault Ste. Marie Court heard that through an investigation conducted by conservation officers, it was ... Justice of the Peace Michel Moreau heard the case in the Ontario Court of ... See all stories on this topic » BlackburnNews.com - Man Killed In ATV Crash Chatham-Kent, London & Area, Midwestern Ontario, Sarnia Lambton, Windsor Essex ... Police say a man was pinned under the ATV after it rolled over. He was ... See all stories on this topic »

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Snowmobiling Growing in Popularity

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Trailhead Ontario - Hosts Needed

We have updated the host site surveys for 2014 and 2015.
If you and your organization wish to host in either 2014 or 2015 please complete the host surveys by November 15th, 2013.
2014 Host Survey  2015 Host Survey

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Cycle Ontario Launches Survey about CycleON

Cycle Ontario (CO) is a private for profit organization that works to promote awareness of on-road/offroad riding and has created a network of relationships with cyclists, cycle shops, cycle advocacy organizations, tourism offices and cycle tourists. As an organization that caters to the cycling community, Cycle Ontario is interested in your feedback as it believes with some capacity improvements and structural re-alignments it can, and should be, the working voice of cyclists in Ontario. Take the Survey 

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