Over the past few weeks, have you been getting emails asking for your permission to be contacted by companies in the future? That’s because there is a new law in Canada that restricts companies (including charities!) from contacting individuals without their express consent – even if you’ve signed up to…
Leaving everything but a few possessions behind to find yourself paddling downstream, with a wall of rock and forest surrounding you, and the sun on your back is as good a getaway as any in my books. I was glad to see many familiar faces and many new agreeing with…
The weather forecast had originally called for rain, but we were in luck: it was warm clear skies for the better part of the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. Even if it had rained all weekend, with 50 participants out to cheer and run with Team CIM this year, the event…
When I ask Rebecca the rather routine question of how old she was when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I get a rather non-routine response: “March 7th, 1990. It was a Wednesday,” she says matter-of-factly as we speak over the phone one evening, “It was right before March…
Fresh Collective has generously donated one of their Premium Wardrobe Makeover Styling Service sessions to be auctioned off in support of Connected in Motion’s fundraising efforts for this year’s Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. Plus, we’ve decided to sweeten the deal by adding two tickets to our Slipstream in the City…
When she’s not in school for landscape design, you’ll probably find Steph Brodie out and active. A fitness instructor at Goodlife Fitness, where she leads spinning classes and strength conditioning classes, Steph confesses two of her favourite reasons for being at the gym: the awesome people there, and the workouts…
“It’s not a very dramatic story, but it’s mine,” Jill once said when I asked her about her diagnosis story. Diagnosed 13 years ago this summer, she recounted how the hot weather meant that drinking water en masse seemed nothing out of the usual, until she got what appeared to…
Words: Julie De Vos | Photos: Mike Last Intense competition, major smiles and loud laughs, pokes and pricks, beads of sweat, sand in places it should not be all equal one thing: The Connected In Motion Bumps N’ Pumps Indoor beach volleyball tournament! Generously sponsored by Animas Canada and held…
Weekend Schedule: Saturday, May 24, 2014- 4:00pm- HTG Sports Ottawa 5K Race Saturday, May 24, 2013- 6:30pm- Ottawa 10K Race Sunday, May 25, 2013- 7:00am- Ottawa Full Marathon Sunday, May 25, 2013- 9:00am- Ottawa Half Marathon Saturday, May 24- Sunday, May25- Cheering Squad!!! We will be tweeting and posting about…
Earlier in the week our friend Bahar posted to our page asking others where they put their insulin pump with tubing, while wearing a dress. We got a tonne of responses, and have compiled them in this handy infographic… The only question we have now is: what are our guy…
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