Through a network of mutual friends and StopGap supporters we were introduced to the wonderful Silvia Guido and her brilliant initiative called AccessTo. Silvia uses a list of criteria to analyze the accessibility of restaurants here in Toronto and her blog highlights the restaurants that are given an accessible thumbs up. If you see the …
A huge congratulations goes out to Belleville Community Ramp Project Team Leader Taylor Bardell for continuing to push her project along in Belleville! Partnering with Home Depot and Community Living Belleville and Area,Taylor and her team of dedicated volunteers completed another five ramps for local businesses with single stepped storefronts. Check out these fantastic photos …
Happy new year! Hopefully the holiday season treated everyone well despite the ice storm and the bitter cold temperatures that mother nature threw at us here in Toronto. If I could, I would punch mother nature in her freezing cold face! Let me bring you up to speed on some really really really really really …
We recently received some fantastic fan mail from a Roncesvalles resident. Her feedback is proof of how a simple ramp can create an inclusive environment. Here is what she had to say: “Hey – I live in the Roncie neighbourhood and LOVE the StopGap ramps you’ve put in there. It makes life easier for my …
We have been selected as one of ten projects that will be highlighted in a book entitled Community Lover’s Guide to the Universe: Toronto Edition. The original edition for this series was conceived in Rotterdam in April 2011 in an attempt to provide guidebooks for cities to surface emergent knowledge from successful community practice around …
Huge news!!! Check out this news piece on Taylor Bardell’s amazing efforts in bringing a ramp project to her community! Click here for the article.
Tracey Coveart wrote an amazing piece about how StopGap came to be and all thats developed since – check it out here!
Our good friends Wanda and Gary Fisher from picturesque Vernon British Columbia decided to take on a Community Ramp Project in Vernon! Check out this awesome article written about their Vernon project – click here and go to page 38 to read! We are so happy to hear about another tremendous success in the story …
Click here to watch the CityNews story on our newfound partnership with Dixon Hall’s Mill Centre! Thank you Audra Brown for putting together such a great story and helping us spread the word!