by Patrick Connor · May 1st 2013
Conservation Ontario and Ontario’s 36 Conservation Authorities challenge you to spend time hiking in our province’s over 270 Conservation Areas and track your progress for a chance to win great prizes! Healthy Hikes will teach you about the ways our environment boosts your health and how you can energize your body and mind by Stepping [...]
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by Patrick Connor · April 10th 2012
Ontario Trails is pleased to add Direct Bearing to its Training and Education Faculty. Just as importantly OTC is pleased that Direct Bearing Inc. will offer 10 hours of trails risk management training as part of the Trailhead Ontario program. Use the register button to simply register for training. This is full scale training in [...]
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by Patrick Connor · February 20th 2012
NEWMARKET (February 15, 2012) The Drummond Report released today offers recommendations that have the potential to improve and enhance environmental management in Ontario. Conservation Ontario, representing the province’s 36 Conservation Authorities specifically referenced in the Report, encourages a thorough discussion on the recommendations.“Conservation Authorities are in a unique position to offer the province innovative ways [...]
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by Patrick Connor · February 12th 2012
A mild winter and lack of snow in parts of Ontario seems to have had a positive effect on vacation property sales, real estate agents say. With the exception of this weekend, there’s virtually no snow in the Greater Toronto Area and that appears to have people thinking about summer and a getaway north of the [...]
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by Patrick Connor · February 8th 2012
There were critics, almost 40 years ago, when Bruce County school trustees bought 320 acres between Boat Lake and Spry Lake for outdoor education.It was a different world then. Kids were always outside anyway, weren’t they? Not now, outdoor educators gathered at the site centre said Saturday. Now, they said, kids average 53 hours in [...]
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