{"id":13,"date":"2025-11-27T03:08:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-11-27T03:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:08:54","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Canadian Balloon Association is the representative organization for hot air ballooning in Canada and works in close collaboration with its members to ensure their interests, and those of all balloonists, are well represented to Transport Canada. The CBA sanctions hot air balloon championships in Canada and validates records. It also serves as a link to the global community by ensuring Canada\u2019s representation at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fai.org\/sport\/ballooning?upcoming=1&amp;f%5B0%5D=fai_event_year%3A2019&amp;display=list\">F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique International\u2019s ballooning division<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The current Board of Directors are:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>President: Johann-Francois Freve (QC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vice President: Dale Ritchie (BC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Treasurer: Cliff Skocdopole (AB)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Secretary: Jonathan Perron-Clow (ON)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>At large: Philippe Levesque (QC), Shane Lockyer (AB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Balloon Association is the representative organization for hot air ballooning in Canada and works in close collaboration with its members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianballoonassociation.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}