{"id":2954,"date":"2008-04-03T15:52:16","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/04\/03\/bicycle-advocacy-workshop-at-city-hall\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T19:57:02","slug":"bicycle-advocacy-workshop-at-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/03\/bicycle-advocacy-workshop-at-city-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycle Advocacy Workshop at City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeunion.to\/ultrasound.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bikeunion.to\/images\/Advocacy_Day.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Council Chambers, Toronto City Hall (Queen &amp; Bay)<br \/>\nSunday April 13 &#8211; 11:00am to 4:00pm<\/p>\n<p>Learn how to improve cycling conditions in your Ward. Become a positive force of change. Learn political process and leadership.<\/p>\n<p>Learn about about navigation strategies through political processes, get public speaking and media coaching, and learn how to get local volunteers, book meeting rooms and host meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders will also share their secrets of success, and City Council Members will share their valuable inside knowledge of how to influence your local politician. Free. All welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers include:<\/p>\n<p>Albert Koehl, Bells on Bloor<br \/>\nEleanor McMahon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespec.com\/News\/Local\/article\/251422\">Share The Road Cycling Coalition<\/a><br \/>\nFred Sztabinski, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontocat.ca\/main\/\">TCAT<\/a><br \/>\nJake Alderdice, Dundas EAST<br \/>\nJoe Mihevc, City Councillor<br \/>\nGord Perks, City Councillor<br \/>\nKatrina Miller, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoenvironment.org\/\">TEA <\/a><br \/>\nMartin Koob, <a href=\"http:\/\/biketoronto.ca\/\">biketoronto.ca <\/a><br \/>\nPatrick Brown<br \/>\nSean Meagher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicinterest.ca\/\">Public Interest <\/a><br \/>\nShamez Amlani, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streetsareforpeople.org\/actions\/cvrp.html\">Streets are for People <\/a><br \/>\nShannon Thompson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenestcity.net\/\">Greenest City<\/a><br \/>\nTammy Thorne<br \/>\nUsman Valiante,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btac.org\/index_en.html\">BTAC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and more!<\/p>\n<p>more information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeunion.to\/i\">www.bikeunion.to<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeunion.to\/advocacy_day.pdf\">Download a flyer about this event<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeunion.to\/WAP.pdf\">Download a flyer about the Ward Advocacy Program<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeunion.to\/\">Toronto Cyclists Union<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council Chambers, Toronto City Hall (Queen &amp; Bay) Sunday April 13 &#8211; 11:00am to 4:00pm Learn how to improve cycling conditions in your Ward. Become a positive force of change. Learn political process and leadership. Learn about about navigation strategies through political processes, get public speaking and media coaching, and learn how to get local<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/04\/03\/bicycle-advocacy-workshop-at-city-hall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Bicycle Advocacy Workshop at City Hall&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4008,"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":[7,3,2],"tags":[8591,655,8596,8595,3256,8590,552,2051,2491,4290,8597,8589,316,8594,8593,8592,648,224,7307],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-events","category-politics","tag-albert-koehl","tag-city-councillor","tag-city-hall-council-chambers","tag-fred","tag-gord-perks","tag-jake-alderdice","tag-joe-mihevc","tag-katrina-miller","tag-local-politician","tag-martin-koob","tag-media-coaching","tag-patrick-brown-sean-meagher","tag-queen","tag-road-cycling-coalition","tag-shannon-thompson","tag-tammy-thorne-usman-valiante","tag-toronto-city-hall","tag-toronto-cyclists-union","tag-www-bikeunion-to"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bicycle Advocacy Workshop at City Hall - 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\/2008\/04\/03\/bicycle-advocacy-workshop-at-city-hall\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bicycle Advocacy Workshop at City Hall - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Council Chambers, Toronto City Hall (Queen &amp; Bay) Sunday April 13 &#8211; 11:00am to 4:00pm Learn how to improve cycling conditions in your Ward. 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