Cycling Without Age - Mississauga

After acknowledging and admitting our 14 participants into the Zoom meeting I played Ole Kassow's introduction to Cycling Without Age, embedded below Then after restarting the recording, I proceeded with the presentation. Acknowledgement to Kim Tan for his help in creating and editing the power point presentation to it's present format as well as creating a pdf of the slides.   To jump ahead in the presentation, go to the description when viewing it in YouTube. Here is the pdf of the presentation slides if you wish to view them This is a list of the attendees I have added some other videos below that aspiring pilots may find interesting.   The first is Nancy Gray of Hamilton?Burlington CWA and Tammy Heidbuurt of New Hope for Bikes presenting their March information session and pilot recruitment Zoom meeting. This is a Zoom information session held by Sandy Bishop of AA CWA for BikeAAA in Annapolis This one is a local program interview with the founders of Lanark County

 On the advice of Raymond Wood of the Cycling Without Age Society in Sidney, BC I applied for a free Google Workspace suite for Non-Profits (almost $200 pa value from Google) so that we could start centralizing many of the functions, documents, folders and archives for our chapter. As part of that I wanted to experiment with their conferencing platform, Google Meet, as the Zoom program I was familiar with had a 40min time limit for free usage while GM gave us an hour.  However, unlike Zoom, the meeting could not be recorded (or I may have been using the wrong profile) and what was supposed to be a test meet ended up being almost 90min!  GM unceremoniously cut us off after an hour and fortunately I had contact information for all the attendees to send out a new meeting code.  With Zoom, it is easier to log back into a meeting by using the same original code for another 40 min. When I opened up the Meeting at 10am, Kris (Hammel), Ruth (Lima) and Anita (Acevedo) were waiting for me.  I t

 After a few false starts and broken promises we have finally attained the blessings of the CRA towards being a fully fledged Charity in Canada. Starting with the registration of our Non-Profit Corporation in Ontario last year being effective from the 27th of July, 2022 we proceeded to register with the CRA.  I downloaded the forms as the website was having some difficulties and mailed them in only to find out a few months later that they had gone to the wrong address and the forms submitted were outdated! I renewed my efforts to apply online and finally was successful in December.  The confirmatory email I got back warned me that the average time to have all the documents scrutinized and finalized could take up to 6 months so I sat back for the wait. Two months later I got a call from an agent assigned to my application that we needed to change some of the wording of our Purposes to slightly broaden the scope of our work from the very narrow definition I had supplied.  Doing so requir