by Fenella Hood | 30 Nov, 2020 | News
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. They have quickly become essential responses to the COVID-19 pandemic that has gripped the world. With schools in Ontario undergoing major transformations to provide safe in-class as well as on-line instruction, local active school travel...
by Fenella Hood | 30 Nov, 2020 | News
Recent efforts to boost walking and wheeling to school in Timiskaming District have proven that AST projects can serve a larger social function. At a time when COVID-19 painted the world grey, project staff and volunteers came together to paint brightly coloured...
by Fenella Hood | 30 Nov, 2020 | News
The installation of new wayfinding signage around three elementary schools in Paris (Ontario) earlier this fall generated both excitement among local residents and headlines in the local newspaper. The signs, a first for the town, are part of a larger AST pilot...
by Fenella Hood | 24 Jun, 2020 | News
Located on the scenic North Channel of Georgian Bay, Blind River (pop. 3,500) is the smallest community to benefit from the OAST Fund. But that hasn’t prevented it from striving to make big things happens to improve the active journey to school for its students. ...
by Fenella Hood | 24 Jun, 2020 | News
A grant from the OAST Fund has been the catalyst for piloting a unique approach to boosting AST in the City of Markham. The York Region DSB, York Catholic DSB, City of Markham and other partners have been developing and testing a new six-tiered program model that is...
