Families with sick children experience off-roading adventure in Muskoka
Families with seriously or chronically ill children got to experience an off-road adventure in Muskoka over the weekend.
Starlight Children's Foundation Canada hosted the event at Christie's Mill Inn and Spa in Port Severn.
"When you have a seriously ill child, it's not easy to do what the rest of us can do with healthy children," says Brian Bringolf, Starlight's CEO.
"We have an incredible in-hospital and outpatient program. Motomax is one of those programs, and we just want to put smiles on the faces of these incredible kids," says Bringolf.
Leaving their worries behind for a weekend, 130 kids and family members enjoyed hovercraft, ATV and fat truck rides.
"It allows us to forget about the hard times. It allows us to forget about the chemo and really remember the good times," says Ethan Bill, who was diagnosed with a brain tumour five years ago.
"Starlight really does bring a moment of just being a family. It's emotional. It allows us to leave a lot of the treatment, the therapies and all that strife and a lot of pain too that comes along with it. We can leave it behind and just do something fun," says Ethan's dad, Ian Bill.
Starlight says its goal is to brighten the lives of sick children and their families through distractive hospital-to-home programs.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
More than 115 cases of eye damage reported in Ontario after solar eclipse
More than 115 people who viewed the solar eclipse in Ontario earlier this month experienced eye damage after the event, according to eye doctors in the province.
Toxic testing standoff: Family leaves house over air quality
A Sherwood Park family says their new house is uninhabitable. The McNaughton's say they were forced to leave the house after living there for only a week because contaminants inside made it difficult to breathe.
Decoy bear used to catch man who illegally killed a grizzly, B.C. conservation officers say
A man has been handed a lengthy hunting ban and fined thousands of dollars for illegally killing a grizzly bear, B.C. conservation officers say.
B.C. seeks ban on public drug use, dialing back decriminalization
The B.C. NDP has asked the federal government to recriminalize public drug use, marking a major shift in the province's approach to addressing the deadly overdose crisis.
OPP responds to apparent video of officer supporting anti-Trudeau government protestors
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) says it's investigating an interaction between a uniformed officer and anti-Trudeau government protestors after a video circulated on social media.
An emergency slide falls off a Delta Air Lines plane, forcing pilots to return to JFK in New York
An emergency slide fell off a Delta Air Lines jetliner shortly after takeoff Friday from New York, and pilots who felt a vibration in the plane circled back to land safely at JFK Airport.
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau on navigating post-political life, co-parenting and freedom
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau says there is 'still so much love' between her and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as they navigate their post-separation relationship co-parenting their three children.
Last letters of pioneering climber who died on Everest reveal dark side of mountaineering
George Mallory is renowned for being one of the first British mountaineers to attempt to scale the dizzying heights of Mount Everest during the 1920s. Nearly a century later, newly digitized letters shed light on Mallory’s hopes and fears about ascending Everest.
Loud boom in Hamilton caused by propane tank, police say
A loud explosion was heard across Hamilton on Friday after a propane tank was accidentally destroyed and detonated at a local scrap metal yard, police say.