NEW! Online Training – Comprehensive & tailored professional development The Road Safety For Canadian Practitioners online training program, presented by TAC & ITE Canada, allows you to tailor your learning to your specific professional development needs. Five courses are offered: Foundations of Road…
Our new resources Webinar recording – Equity in Vision Zero and road safety Parachute delivered a webinar, Equity in Vision Zero and road safety, on Dec. 8, 2022. Watch the video recording if you missed it! The webinar was moderated by…
RoadsafetyBC is launching this fall’s #BuckleUpBC social media campaign! This bi-annual seatbelt safety campaign aims to spread awareness about the life-saving importance of proper seatbelt use, and to encourage parents, caregivers and all British Columbians to always use seatbelts. The…
National Teen Driver Safety Week (NTDSW) takes place Oct. 16 to 22 in 2022 and this year focuses on the serious issue of distracted driving among teens. To support the campaign across Canada, Parachute has created a kit for schools…
The Ministry of Transportation launched the Road Safety Community Partnership Program TODAY, September 6, 2022! For more information, or to apply for grant funding, please visit: Available funding opportunities from the Ontario Government and click on ‘Road Safety Community Partnership…
Transport Canada is running a safety campaign focused on the Dangers of Hot Cars and Children. The campaign includes the creation of a new TC website that provides an overview of the importance of the topic, strategies how to mitigate…
Ontario is committed to ensuring students can travel to and from school safely. That is why the Ministry of Transportation-Ontario introduced a new amber-red lighting standard for school buses. Starting July 1, 2022, Ontario will require all school buses manufactured…
In 2019, Parachute published the Vision Zero Canadian Landscape 2.0, which profiled 24 jurisdictions. This included reviewing the status of all jurisdictions in the process of considering, adopting or implementing Vision Zero; presenting the key features of their programs, using…
** Le texte français suit l’anglais ** Dear Transportation Stakeholders, This is to inform you of new legislation, the Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act (CCSPA), introduced in Parliament on June 14, 2022, alongside amendments to Securing Canada’s Telecommunications System (SCTS) resulting in the combined Act, An…
Watch For Wildlife When You’re Behind The Wheel. Peak times for wildlife collisions are in the spring when animals seek road salt in ditches and try to escape biting insects and during the fall mating and migration seasons. POEO has…
May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness month, and RoadSafetyBC is pleased to be leading an awareness campaign about this important road safety initiative. This RoadSafetyBC campaign aims to spread awareness about what all road users can do to keep motorcyclists safe….
The popularity of micromobility devices in recent years is giving rise to the fastest-growing mode of transport in cities across the province of Ontario. From POEO’s perspective, the greater variance in the types of vehicles and devices on our roads…
This free webinar provides an overview of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety, 2021-2030, shares the regional call to action for Canada and discusses next steps. We also share information about the upcoming #CommitToAct 2022…
BC announce the launch of a new app to help new and inexperienced drivers improve their hazard perception skills. Street Sense is an interactive learning experience that aims to enhance situational awareness by presenting hazards in driving scenarios in a safe,…
Today the Current on CBC presented road safety as a topic of discussion. What will it take to bring down road fatalities and make Canada’s roads safer for all? They spoke with Jessica Spieker, who was hit by an SUV…
This RoadSafetyBC campaign aims to spread awareness about the safety benefits of properly wearing a seatbelt, along with key information about proper carseat and booster seat use. The campaign will run from March 21, 2022 through April 1, 2022. It…
The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy is hosting a series of roundtables throughout 2022 on the Canadian Northern Corridor Concept (CNC). The roundtables are facilitated by Cascade Projects. The roundtable event, to be held via Zoom on April…
As mentioned in Parachute’s last Open Your Parachute newsletter, over fall 2021, Parachute drew together diverse sectors to envision how to work together to drive change to our roads and road use. This collaboration has resulted in a report and…
Jessie Singer’s best friend died 15 years ago when he was 22, cycling in New York, and a driver hit and killed him. Singer, a journalist, also became a road safety advocate. Her quest to find out why society often doesn’t…
This year, Parachute’s Safe Kids Week will focus on the safety and health benefits of encouraging school-age children to engage in active transportation: that is, to walk, cycle or wheel to school or other nearby destinations, rather than be driven. …