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  Ontario Cycling Association chooses Ride for Karen as its charity ride for 2017

  Posted on: April 20, 2017

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  – The annual ride has raised more than $2.4 million to send children with cancer to camp – April 19, 2017 (Toronto, ON) – The Ontario Cycling Association has chosen Ride for Karen as its charity ride for 2017.  The 16th annual Ride for Karen, which will take place on Sunday, August 13th, raises money […]

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  The Ride for Karen Founders Interview

  Posted on: August 5, 2014

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  The Ride for Karen Founders, Kirk and Kris Tobias, were interviewed in July 2014, by the host of CBC’s Our Toronto program, Marivel Taruc. Our Toronto is a wide-ranging one hour program focusing on people and events making an impact on Canada’s largest city. Kirk and Kris discussed the genesis behind the Ride for Karen […]

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  The Ride for Karen is preparing for an uphill climb. We need your support!

  Posted on: March 21, 2014

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  The Ride for Karen is an annual cycling event that has raised over $2 million to support children living with cancer. For the past 12 years, the Ride for Karen has taken place the first weekend of September. Recently, a for-profit event chose the same date (September 7, 2014) for its ride. This is concerning […]

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  Ontario Cyclists Raise $200,000 To Support Kids With Cancer

  Posted on: September 10, 2013

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  Ride for Karen’s 2013 event has been featured on newswire.ca. Support from cyclists from across Ontario and presenting sponsor Scotiabank have helped to raise money to help build and furnish new cancer care facilities, provide resources for cancer support centres and send kids with cancer to camp. View the full article here.

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  Cyclists gear-up for annual Ride for Karen

  Posted on: September 3, 2013

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  Ride for Karen was recently featured in the Vaughan Weekly newspaper. Check out the article here.

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  Pickering Resident Rides To Help Kids With Cancer

  Posted on: August 19, 2013

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  Brian Arnold was recently interviewed on DurhamRegion.com. “Already a veteran of four previous Ride for Karen cancer fundraisers, Pickering resident Brian Arnold has a special, more sobering reason to climb on his bicycle and take part in his fourth 100K (century) ride next month.” Read the full article.

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  Ride For Karen in the news 2012

  Posted on: September 30, 2012

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  The 2012 Ride for Karen event was one of our most successful to date! Media were interested in the stories we and our participants had to tell from the cycling event aspect to Karen’s story.

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  Ride For Karen in the news

  Posted on: September 20, 2011

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  Thanks to Paradigm PR, our amazing public relations partner, the 2011 Ride for Karen garnered the most media exposure since we began the event in 2002.  Below is a sampling of the TV coverage the event received.  Additional print articles can be found in the News section of the website. Global CIII TV News September […]

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  Behind the scenes at the Ride for Karen.

  Posted on: June 10, 2011

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  What does it take to put on the Ride for Karen each year? There is a lot of organization that’s required to make sure that the day of the ride goes smoothly (and we get a bit of sleep the night before). First off, volunteers, and lots of them.  There are a multitude of tasks, […]

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  Ride for Karen 2011 – The 10th Anniversary Ride

  Posted on: June 8, 2011

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  For the Ride for Karen’s 10th Anniversary, the Tobias brothers are making a number of significant changes, all of which are focused on  improving rider experience, rider numbers and overall fundraising: Updated Logo – we have refreshed the Ride for Karen logo for 2011 New Collateral Materials – Janet New (www.janetnew.com), a very talented designer, […]

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