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Northridge Inn & Resort Reports Record Winter Season

PR Web (press release)
Northridge Inn & Resort, a four season resort in the Almaguin Highlands, north of Muskoka, Ontarioreports that they experienced a record-breaking season this past winter at the inn, due to good snow conditions and popular events in the area, ...
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Tillsonburg's Trans Canada Trail
Tillsonburg News
To date, over 16500 kilometres of trail are operational. Quebec and Manitoba have 100% of their connective trails completed while Ontario currently has around 62% of its finished. “We have a big challenge,” said MacPherson. “But we will do it.
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Canadian Cyclist - 2012 Plastiglas Ontario Cup Mountain Bike Race ...
Canadian Cyclist Online. The source for Canadian cycling news and information including mountain bike and road bike tours, adventure biking features, ...
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Heritage Toronto Walks 2012 - PRLink
From now to October, thousands of people attend our free neighbourhood walking tours. Covering all areas of the city, Heritage Toronto Walks tell the stories ...
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Canoeing in and around Toronto
blogTO (blog)
Whether you launch your canoe in the East, or paddle in from the West, all pathsconverge on Toronto Island. The Islands are carved with little river systems. Birds and turtles and carp nest and spawn on sandy beaches and in warm, shallow pools.
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Cycle Toronto (@bikeunion) on Twitter
Sign up for Twitter to follow Cycle Toronto (@bikeunion). a voice for all Toronto cyclists. Safe streets, a healthy city, a vibrant voice.
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Urban walking tour festival hits suburban Ottawa

Ottawa Citizen
By CHLOÉ FEDIO, The Ottawa Citizen May 6, 2012 9:23 PM The Barrhaven walk was one of 50walks held over the May 5 weekend in Ottawa as part of Jane's Walk, a festival of urban walkingtours designed by volunteers for their neighbours.
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Off road trails in southern ontario - Jeep Wrangler Forum
Im wondering if anyone knows of any LEGAL trails in southern ontario for my jeep .
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Residents can learn about impact of War of 1812 on Toronto
insideTORONTO.com
A unique series of lectures, debates and conversations is being planned to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and its impact on Toronto neighbourhoods. The Bicentennial Talks pools the resources of Toronto's major cultural and heritage ...
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Great Trails - Great People - June 17-20, 2012

Two killed, one critically injured following weekend crashes
Waterloo Record
A female pedestrian and a male cyclist were killed after they were struck by vehicles on Saturday and Sunday. A female cyclist suffered life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a vehicle on Saturday afternoon. All of the collisions happened in ...
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Your Guide to Jane's Walk 2012 | events | Torontoist
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New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Joins Avenza PDF Maps App Digital Map Store
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, May 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Avenza Systems Inc., producers of MAPublisher(R) cartographic software for Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) and Geographic Imager(R) geospatial tools for Adobe Photoshop(R), announces that the New York-New Jersey ...
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Ride the Ravine - charity bike ride through Toronto's ravines | I Bike ...

Evergreen Brick Works will be hosting their inaugural charity bike ride “Ride the Ravines” on Sunday, June 17, in support of accessible cycling in the GTA.
www.ibiketo.ca/.../ride-ravine-charity-bike-ride-through-toron...

Toronto marathon and Mississauga marathon? Runners forced to choose
Toronto Star
“I just love the (Toronto) event,” he said. “You stick to what you know. ... changed this year, moving the finish line from Queen's Park to Ontario Place.

Windsor's happy trails: Ojibway Park
OurWindsor.ca
Now that Spring is upon us, lace up those muddy hiking boots and trek through ... For more information about Southwestern Ontario trails or local hikes in ...

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Women getting out and getting active

MPNnow.com
Biking, hiking, swimming and boating — you name it, the women of Women Outdoors are doing it. A nonprofit, all-volunteer organization founded in 1980, Women Outdoors Inc. keeps growing. With the magnificent hills, valleys, lakes and waterfalls of the ...
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Friends of Pere Marquette Rail Trail meeting this Tuesday
Midland Daily News
The Friends of the Pere Marquette Rail Trail will hold its annual general meeting from 6-7 pm this Tuesday at the Carriage House Hall within Heritage Park, 3200 Cook Road in Midland. The meeting will include updates on Rail Trail activities and ...
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Hiking for Hospice Simcoe - The Barrie Examiner - Ontario, CA
Participants went on a hike Sunday morning at Barrie's Centennial Park for the 10th annual Hike for Hospice. All the proceeds from this event stay...
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Medigas Presents 10th Annual Toronto Hike for Hospice
SNAP Downtown Toronto Community Events ... This year's Hike in Toronto will feature a 5 km challenge hike through Riverdale Park or a 2 km leisure walk in ...
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Top 5 picks for Toronto's 2012 Jane's Walk

Jane's Walk Toronto 2012: Our top 5 picks. 4 May 2012 Comment. The first weekend of May is again upon us, which not only means the patios will start to open ...
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Jane's Walk aims to improve urban literacy
CBC.ca
The first Jane's Walk took place in Toronto in 2007 and quickly spread to New York City and other Canadian cities. According to its website, the event attempts to encourage civic engagement, leadership, debate, discussion and interest in urban planning ...
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Detroiters are taking steps to better the city with 1st Jane's Walk
Chicago Tribune
The first Jane Jacobs Walk was held May 5, 2007, in Toronto. Since that one -- held to coincide with Jacobs' May 4 birthday -- the number of walks has exploded. Last year, there were 511 walksin 75 cities and 15 countries across the world, ...
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Rondeau Park migration programs now taking flight
London Free Press
Others will fly on to the boreal forests of Northern Ontario. I asked Laura Penner, Rondeau's natural... During the festival there are events each day.

Ottawa can grow without getting too high
Ottawa Citizen
... away by a single intense and expensive battle at the Ontario Municipal Board. ... The ground area inside Ottawa's Greenbelt mirrors almost exactly the ...


Weekend Newsstand: May 5, 2012
Torontoist
And the number of bicycle-vehicle collisions are up, but not up in tandem with the new, higher volume of cyclists. And baby bunnies are so cute, especially the ones with really floppy ears. No, but, really,Cycle Toronto is calling the report proof ...
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Paddling Instructor News
Site developer, David Johnston has been a sea kayak instructor with Paddle Canada for 15 years and lives in Toronto, Ontario. He also serves as the chair of ...


Cycle Toronto says city data shows Jarvis safer for everyone with a bike lane
Open File (blog)
While the Toronto Cyclist's Union Cycle Toronto's effort to force the city to conduct a time-consuming environmental assessment before removing the Jarvis bike lanes continues, it's published city collision data showing changes from the period before ...
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Bixi: a stroke of genius, but in need of some fixes
Montreal Gazette
It's time for Montreal, which took Paris's Vélib' bicycle-sharing setup and turned it into its own innovative and wildly successful Bixi program, to do something sensible with its struggling and indebted stroke of genius.
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Q & A with Toronto Bicycle Maven Yvonne ... - Women on Bikes SoCal
On a recent trip to Toronto, I had the pleasure of spending time with bicycling advocate Yvonne Bambrick. Yvonne is a bicycling celebrity around town, largely ...
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Great Trails - Great People - June 17-20, 2012

OpenRoad: When it comes to bikeways, how do we compare to the 905? Open File (blog) Whether you drive, cycle, walk or take public transit, getting around Toronto can often be a pain, but instead of lobbying for better facilities for all, the city is stuck bickering about the “best” way to get around. Due to increased gridlock, ... See all stories on this topic » Post-Spawn Shallow Walleye - Use the Canoe! Walleye Central Up in northwestern Ontario, the lakes and rivers are riddled with walleye spawning sites that rarely see any anglers due to their location. Spring water levels in some of these spots can change as much as 3 feet in a day making it nearly impossible to ... See all stories on this topic » Ramps revamped at abandoned bike park insideTORONTO.com James, who founded faith-based initiative Revolution(s), a program of Youth Unlimited (Toronto YFC), said his organization is partnering with several others to revitalize the park, including the City ofToronto, Silent Sports, International Mountain ... See all stories on this topic » This weekend's Jane's Walks unveil the hidden city Toronto Star Established in 2007 in Toronto, and held annually on the first weekend in May, the free Jane's Walk excursions have grown from 27 to more than 400 across Canada and 550 worldwide this year. Jane's Walk Toronto 2012 will offer 21 walks this Saturday and ... See all stories on this topic »

Jane's Walks take to Mimico, New Toronto and Long Branch insideTORONTO.com Jane's Walks take place this weekend in New Toronto, Mimico-By-The-Lake and for the first time, in Long Branch. Jane's Walk celebrates the ideas and legacy of urbanist Jane Jacobs by encouraging residents to explore and engage in conversations about ... See all stories on this topic » Training as a team year-round CottageCountryNow.ca On Saturday morning, April 28 at Kinsmen Park, the Georgian Nordic Ski Club held an open session to introduce youth to year-round training for cross country skiing. Youth aged 14 and up, looking for something different with lots of fun checked out the ... See all stories on this topic » The week ahead Ottawa Citizen To find out about the festival events, visit tulipfestival.ca Not up to going out to ... In support of the Easter Seals of Ontario (children and youth with ... Daytripping: Catch them before they're gone Ottawa Citizen My favourite springtime hike is Trail No. 36 from O'Brien Beach on Meech Lake Road west of Old Chelsea to the ruins at Meech Creek. Formerly, this hike was aptly dubbed Discovery Trail — today it's part of the Trans-Canada Trail network, sadly losing ... See all stories on this topic »