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The Walter Bean Grand River Trail is a 76-kilometre (47 mi) multi-use trail that runs along the Grand River in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The trail runs through the cities of Cambridge, Kitchener and Waterloo and is owned and maintained by the cities. It is considered part of the larger Grand Valley Trail, a 250-kilometre (160 mi) route that runs along much of the length of the river. A section of the trail is labelled the Economical Insurance Trailway, spanning from the Waterloo city limits in the north to the start of the Cambridge city limits in the south.
Ken Seiling is a retired Canadian politician, most notable for serving as Regional Chair of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo from 1985 to 2018. He served as mayor of the lower-tier municipality of Woolwich in the 1970s. Notable policy legacies of Seiling include the controversial "countryside line", a municipally managed greenbelt and the development of Waterloo's light rail transit system, which was a defining topic in the 2014 election. He also helped spearhead action in the late 1990s and early 2000s to ban smoking indoors in Waterloo businesses. After 2014, Seiling was selected to co-lead a provincial report into efficiency and reform in municipal regional government.
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- ↑ "List of Candidates | City of Cambridge, Ontario, Canada". Archived from the original on 2014-07-16. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
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