What do knots, needles, tubing, chalk, and tight fitting shoes have in common?? Indoor Rock Climbing with Type 1 Diabetes! This past Saturday CIM took a group to Joe Rockhead’s in Toronto for an afternoon of indoor rock adventure. We had a lot of new faces out and, while the…
There are really big Type 1 inspirations, like Kris Freeman participating in his 4th Olympics this winter, or Sebastien Sasseville and his OutRun Diabetes campaign. These great feats are amazing at bringing a sense of pride to the diabetes community, and generally inspiring people to push their comfort zones and…
Words: Virtue Bajurny | Photos: Mike Last YMCA Camp Wanakita is where the first ever CIM Slipstream was held. It is also where the first Slipstream I ever attended was held. After that year the event was moved to the smaller YMCA Camp, Pine Crest. Throughout the drive from Toronto…
Two weeks ago Connected in Motion hosted its third annual Slipstream in the City Party––a fusion of celebration and fundraising that highlights the core of the CIM philosophy––community. Community kəˈmjuːnɪti noun: 1. the condition of sharing or having certain attitudes and interests in common. 2. a similarity or identity. 3….
Words: Virtue Bajurny | Images: Blair Ryan We landed in Seattle to fog. Lots of it. And this fog followed us all the way across the ferry to Orcas Island and right into YMCA Camp Orkila. It seemed a fitting metaphor for CIM’s first Slipstream in the US- new things…
Words: Amy Burrows | Images: Mike Last Around two years ago at Winter Slipstream all the Ambassadors sat down and wrote out what event we could host that seemed right up Connected in Motion’s alley. We all wrote down our ideas and shared with the group. Stephanie Brodie (mastermind of…
It was a hot and muggy day for this year’s Birdies for ‘Betes golf tournament: sitting at 33° C, but feeling more like 41° C with the humidity. Nevertheless, we had a great turn-out of volunteers and participants! A total of 15 teams hit the green at Highlands Golf Club…
Words: Jen Hanson | Photos: Virtue Bajurny Crisp fall air. The fading warmth of summer. Pumpkin Spice Lattes. It could only mean one thing – time for Western Slipstream. It wasn’t long ago that Virtue and I left behind the changing colours of the Ontario autumn and headed west –…
Epic. There word describes the adventures of the 2013 Extended Canoe Trip better.
Words: Meghan Sauvé I am a diabetes researcher, having spent eight years unconditionally devoted to understanding how high blood glucose leads to those insidious complications associated with diabetes. Specifically, I study a particular set of molecules that are necessary for blood vessels to constrict. I work to understand how these…