With summer just around the corner, the CIM Team is preparing for our favourite part of the year – Canoe Tripping Season! This summer marks CIM’s fifth year of providing backcountry canoe trip programs in Ontario. We live for the days when we wake up to the sounds of loons…
The running joke in the CIM Office is… Well, that’s it. The total lack thereof. Although operating office-less can be, at times, a bit challenging (like when people give us the heads up that they will ‘just drop by the office – be there in 10!; or when we come…
Connected in Motion is driven by its community. Each and every one of our community members inspire us to grow––to push harder to redefine life with Type 1 diabetes and to breathe fresh air into diabetes education. Awarded for the first time in 2012, the CIM Inspiration Award recognizes the…
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: 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: Luke Cameron | Photos: Mike Last I had checked and re-checked my dry sac Wednesday night to ensure I had everything. I have a bad habit of forgetting one or two things when I go on canoe trips. I forgot an extra pair of shoes a month earlier on…
Spring has been upon us for a whole month now. Yet mother nature isn’t quite on the same page as the rest of us. As the snow was falling on Saturday April 20 throughout Southern Ontario, the Connected in Motion community came together to forget about the sub-zero temperatures and…