November 27, 2024: CBC News covers Youth en Route offering bike lessons and bicycles to Father Lacombe students, along with other schools this year, helping kids get active and learn to ride.”

November 10 , 2024: LiveWire’s local journalism initiative reporter, Paula Tran writes about our work at Father Lacombe High School’s physical education classes where we taught students basic cycling skills and provided free bikes!

September 23, 2024: Darren Krause from LiveWire Calgary interviewed Youth en Route’s Executive Director, Laura Shutiak, about durability issues with mid-street crosswalk signs near elementary schools, often caused by drivers hitting them.

August 30, 2024: LiveWire Reporter Darren Krause highlights Kauther Alsaimari, a success story of a University of Calgary student who partnered with Youth en Route to deliver bikes to her southeast Calgary mosque, promoting active transportation and environmental sustainability in her community.

June 12, 2024: Republished David Kim’s story on Youth en Route’s bike giveaway at Forest Lawn High School.

June 10, 2024: David Kim from LiveWire captures Youth en Route’s bike giveaway at Forest Lawn High School, where 45 students received bicycles, along with helmets and locks, to promote active transportation, and accessibility in Calgary.

July 21, 2023: Calgary Herald: Hiren Mansukhani writes about Nada Affan’s, Adam Schwartz’s and Youth en Route’s collaborative work on 10 reports with suggestions for improvement Calgary’s high schools’ biking infrastructure.

March 10, 2023: LiveWire Calgary: Darren Krause joined us at the launch of our video about preventing bike theft and wrote this report.

Jan.5, 2023: Livewire Calgary: Editor Darren Krause follows up on the approved funding for the 5A network. Where will improvements be prioritized? What will be built first. He talked to Laura Shutiak of Youth en Route to get our perspective.

November 19, 2022: CBC News: Taylor Simmons highlights the efforts and impact of Youth en Route on encouraging Calgary’s students to bike to school since its pilot in 2021.

Nov. 15, 2022: Livewire Calgary: Reporter Aryn Toombs visited Forest Lawn High School to see kids riding new adaptive bikes that Youth en Route purchased for special needs classes at CBE schools. His story includes some great pictures.

Nov. 15, 2022: CTV News Calgary: A bike for everyone! Photo Journalist Kevin Fleming talked to students, teachers and our partners at the Greater Forest Lawn Seniors club to understand the importance of our donation of adaptive trikes to CBE high schools. Use this link to get to the web story.

Sept 27, 2022: Radio Canada Youth en Route Board Chair Shiv Ruparell spoke (en Français!) to La Croisee about our work in Southern Alberta.

Sept 22, 2002: Youth en Route chatted with Ted Henley on QR77s Drive home show about our work in local schools. Unfortunately there is no audio link that we can find.

Sept 22, 2022: CBC Online: Journalist Taylor Simmons writes a great overview of Youth en Route and our work across the city, talking to students and administrators to give a great overview of our impact.

Sept 14, 2022: ED Laura Shutiak spoke to host Chris dela Torre about Youth en Route’s new funding from Eco-Trust and what it will mean to our schools and the students there. Again, the show doesn’t seem to be archived into a podcast form or link.

Sept 8, 2022: Calgary Citizen: Reporter Leanne Murray writes about the work Youth en Route is doing across the city, providing the origin story of the organization and really gets at what we are trying to do.

Sept 2, 2022: LiveWire : Our Shift Happens Pack is in the news! LiveWire editor Darren Krause shares all the details about our nifty little fundraising pack. Get yours at B & P Cycle.

July 8, 2022: LiveWire: Editor Darren Krause reports on the Calgary City Council Committee meeting and the potential for more funding for for safe and active routes to school.

July 7, 2022: Calgary Herald: Brodie Thomas watches along and reports about the Calgary City Council Infrastructure Committee meeting, as councillors discuss expanding the active and safe routes to school program. Youth en Route presented at the meeting, and the quotes used are from Laura Shutiak’s presentation.

June 28, 2022: Global News: Great item by Carolyn Kury de Castillo about Youth en Route’s bike rack innovation and the students at Forest Lawn High School that are building them in welding classes.

May 6, 2022: Lethbridge Herald: Youth en Route’s partnership with Winston Churchill in Lethbridge has turned into an integrated learning experience for the School’s Knowledge and Employability Class, according to teacher Katie Nelson.  An excellent feature story  by intern Nicholas Allen

May 2, 2022: CTV News Calgary: Journalist Kevin Green visits a the Bike Shed at the Greater Forest Lawn Seniors Center where a group of bike enthusiasts are fixing up old bikes for our Program Schools. There’s even video of the students at Lester Pearson out for a ride.

Mar 15, 2022: The Sprawl : Writer Kirti Bhadresa does a deep dive into why the easy and obvious choice isn’t always the one made when it comes to getting to school.

March 8, 2022: CTV Calgary news: Videographer Kevin Green went to see Youth en Route’s new, old bike rack being worked on at Forest Lawn High Schools’ welding shop and talked to students at Henry Wisewood using it.

Feb 23, 2022: Calgary Eye Opener: Youth en Route’s Laura Shutiak was a guest on the morning Eye Opener, telling host David Gray about the bike rack innovation and how it will empower students to make a healthy choice to get to school. The segment is in the final third of the podcast.

Feb 21, 2022: Live Wire: Writer Darren Krause captures the needs and benefits of the bike rack retrofit for old-school bike racks

Feb. 20, 2022: Calgary Herald: Brittany Gervais speaks to Youth en Route and tells the story of how the bike rack innovation came to be, thanks to the support of the Arusha Center TAG grant and other donors.

Nov. 23, 2020: Live Wire: A story about the Pilot Project that started Youth en Route on the pathway to incorporation and charitable status.