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Cycling PEI says kids should bike on sidewalks
Image: Swastiverma Sidewalk-riding is prohibited in many Canadian municipalities, but to Cycling PEI children shouldn’t be subjected to those rules. As the CBC reported, the province’s Highway Traffic...
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Jasper Park Cycling Association hopes to raise $20,000 by Christmas to make...
If everything goes to plan, Jasper, Alta., will be getting a new bike park in the town’s west end. A big round of thanks for that development is due to the infusion of more than $13,000 in donations...
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12 years after coming to Canada, Rwanda-born rider rides 11,000 km of the...
Image: AKEXA Burundi/Twitter Twelve years ago, Jean-Aimé Bigirimana, now 37, came to Canada from Rwanda as a refugee with his family. Settling in Saskatoon, Bigirimana found the prairie community...
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Bikes for Kids hopes to get underprivileged youth in Calgary, and across the...
For many Canadian children, bikes and youth are more or less synonymous. Looking back through childhood, some of our earliest memories involve the wind in our hair, our pedals at our feet, and that...
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Location of Brantford, Ont.’s proposed bike park meeting resistance: reports
Image: Google Maps Since Brantford, Ont.’s new bike skills park was announced, its location—situated close to a meadow in Waterworks Park, occupying 2.5 of the park’s 220 acres—has been a cause for...
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Ontario Place cycling trails to bring ‘a little bit of country’ to Toronto
The cycling trail winds through Ontario Place on Toronto’s waterfront. (Image: IDuke Ontario Place has twice hosted Red Bull’s Race the Place, a criterium-style event in the shadow of Toronto’s...
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Fredericton’s bike lanes and trails ‘disjointed’ at key locations: cycling...
Fredericton’s bike infrastructure includes this bike bridge, spanning the St. John River. (Image: Reaperexpress on Wikimedia Commons During summer of 2016, the city of Fredericton, N.B. conducted a...
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Kitchener, Ont., bait bikes net 8 would-be thieves
If you’re a rider in Kitchener, Ont., and you’re worried about bike theft, have faith. Local police are on the job, keeping your steeds well-protected, and their vigilance is netting results. The key...
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Metro Vancouver’s 10-year plan for transit improvements approved, with big...
Photo Credit: Paul Krueger via Compfight cc On Wednesday, Nov. 23, the early stages of B.C.’s ambitious, $2 billion plan to beef up transportation infrastructure throughout the Metro Vancouver area was...
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Targeting of Edmonton’s sidewalk-riding cycling homeless by police ‘unfair’:...
Advocates and anti-poverty workers in Edmonton, Metro News reports, are arguing that it’s unfair to saddle the homeless with fines for cycling infractions—such as riding on the sidewalk, for example....
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Calgary cycle-track network officially approved: reports
Photo Credit: BikeCalgary via Compfight cc After going to a vote at Calgary’s city council, a network of cycling infrastructure in the city’s downtown core and the Beltline area, introduced 18 months...
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Garneau announces commemorative Canada 150 cycling kit
This summer, Canada will be turning 150 years young. To mark the occasion, Garneau is rolling out a commemorative kit, tailor-made for riders who want to fly their country’s colours high. Louis...
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Alberta adventure cyclist en route across Antarctica, riding 1,200 km by fat...
Image: Hank Van Weelden/Facebook If all goes according to plan, Alberta’s Hank Van Weelden — an adventure cyclist who’s no stranger to unique terrain — is marking this Christmas well on his way to...
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Ellen Watters dies after being hit by a vehicle during a New Brunswick...
Watters tops the podium in Belgium After being struck during a training ride by a vehicle on Riverview Drive East in Lower Cove, N.B., just outside her home town of Sussex, Ellen Watters — whose...
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Cycling collisions reach new levels on Moncton, N.B. streets in 2016
Bike signage in Moncton, New Brunswick. Image by Tony Webster In the greater Moncton, N.B. area, the number of cycling collisions over the last year has skyrocketed compared to five years ago, as data...
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Researchers in Hamilton have intensive-care patients pedalling in bed
A patient receiving ventilation pedals in bed while under intensive care. (Source, shared under a Creative Commons License) Researchers at St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, CTVNews.ca reports, have...
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Manitoba cyclist determined to finish transcontinental ride after having bike...
Image: Facebook For Grant Hatherley of Flin Flon, Man., riding from Canada to Mexico was meant to be another “journey of self-discovery,” to use the Flin Flon Reminder‘s words. What prompted the young...
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Canada’s first-ever Liv Bicycle Boutique opens in Vancouver
Vancouver is the site of the first-ever Liv Bicycle Boutique in Canada, which opened Thursday noon at 1709 West 4th Ave. in the West Coast city. The store’s official grand opening, Liv announced, is...
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Haley Smith, Peter Disera return to Norco Factory Team XC ranks for 2017
Norco Bicycles has announced the roster of the 2017 Norco Factory Team, following a trail of successes its riders have blazed through the North American circuit. This year, competing for the first...
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Study shows Idaho stop improves cyclist safety
The Idaho stop effectively treats stop signs as yields for cyclists. (Image credit: Photo Credit: dno1967b via Compfight.cc) A study published by DePaul University in Chicago, News1130.com reported, is...
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