{"id":1669,"date":"2007-03-21T13:36:01","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:37:48","slug":"what-the-federal-budget-does-for-cyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/21\/what-the-federal-budget-does-for-cyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"What the federal budget does for cyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/v5\/images\/newspaper\/20070321\/cartoon-600.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/v5\/images\/newspaper\/20070321\/cartoon-400.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>click on cartoon to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/v5\/images\/newspaper\/20070321\/cartoon-600.png\">view larger<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Globe and Mail really impressed me with its editorial cartoon today.<\/p>\n<p>There is actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopetition.com\/online\/10170.html\">petition<\/a> for the promotion of cycling in Canada, which asks the federal government to provide a tax credit for commuter cyclists. It now has over 4,000 signatures. It was started by <a href=\"http:\/\/tucorides.blogspot.com\/\">this fellow<\/a> called Tuco. There is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momentumplanet.ca\/?q=node\/276\">full article<\/a> about the petition in the excellent magazine; Momentum.<\/p>\n<p>(More news on the federal budget can be seen <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1662\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click on cartoon to view larger. The Globe and Mail really impressed me with its editorial cartoon today. There is actually a petition for the promotion of cycling in Canada, which asks the federal government to provide a tax credit for commuter cyclists. It now has over 4,000 signatures. It was started by this fellow<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/21\/what-the-federal-budget-does-for-cyclists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;What the federal budget does for cyclists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,9],"tags":[457,31,651,313,36,314],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-politics","category-traffic","tag-canada","tag-election","tag-federal-government","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-resources","tag-the-globe-and-mail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What the federal budget does for cyclists - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/03\/21\/what-the-federal-budget-does-for-cyclists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What the federal budget does for cyclists - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"click on cartoon to view larger. 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