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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p><img width=568 height=242 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CFE268.C4A9EB20" alt=Picture><o:p></o:p></p><p> Hello 2-wheeled friends,<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000'>Send a real cycling champion to</span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000'> <b>City Hall! </b></span><span style='color:#C00000'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Albert Koehl</span></b><span style='color:#C00000'> </span>is our guy. He’s running for Council in <b><span style='color:#C00000'>Ward 20</span></b>. Check out his website: <a href="http://www.votealbertkoehl.com" target="_blank">www.votealbertkoehl.com</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p>Koehl has got street cred, having fought for bike lanes on Bloor for many years now by taking a lead role in organizing annual Bells on Bloor rides and this year’s Bikestock<span style='color:#1F497D'>.</span> He’s been an environmental lawyer for 20 years, during which time he lead the legal battle for bike lanes on Bloor downtown; was instrumental in pushing the province into calling the recent coroner’s inquest into cycling deaths in Ontario; and took the city to the Ontario Labour Relations Board in 2009 arguing that Toronto’s not doing enough to design streets so cyclists and pedestrians are protected. Here are some of his bike awards: <a href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/story.cfm?content=191886">Toronto Cycling Hero</a> <em><span style='font-style:normal'>NOW Magazine, 2013</span></em>; <a href="http://dandyhorsemagazine.com/blog/2012/11/22/lawyers-patrick-brown-and-albert-koehl-share-tcats-2012-active-transportation-champion-award-recap-of-this-years-bicycle-friendly-business-awards/" target="_blank" title="">Active Transportation Champion of the Year</a>, <em><span style='font-style:normal'>Toronto Centre for Active Transportation, 2012;</span> </em><a href="http://www.ibiketo.ca/blog/2009/01/21/toronto-bike-awards-2009">Cycling Advocate of the Year</a>, iBikeTO, 2009.<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><b><span style='color:#C00000'>Can you lend a hand to get a bicycle advocate elected?</span></b><span style='color:#C00000'> </span>Here’s how you can help:<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Join our bike parade on Sat. Oct. 11, 11 – 1 p.m. or ride the trailer anytime. Contact: <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org" target="_blank">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Join our canvass blitz Sat. Oct. 11, 1 – 4 p.m. or canvass/leaflet drop anytime. Contact: <a href="mailto:erooney19@hotmail.com" target="_blank">erooney19@hotmail.com</a> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Donate – you get 75% back! <a href="http://www.votealbertkoehl.com/donate.html" target="_blank">http://www.votealbertkoehl.com/donate.html</a> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>Forward this email to your 2-wheeled friends. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>We really need your help! We’re planning s<span style='color:#1F497D'>o</span>me great bicycle press events that we’d love to invite you to if you join our team. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>Thank you… Onward to City Hall!<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>- Angela Bischoff <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'>Take the Tooker, Bells on Bloor, Koehl for Council<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p>p.s. Olivia Chow is a cyclist too, and has promised to expand our cycling network by 200 km in the next term. <a href="http://www.oliviachow.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.oliviachow.ca/</a> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:normal'>p.s.s. Here’s a petition that I think you’ll be interested in: <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Toronto_Mayoral_Candidates_Support_Minimum_Grid_100km_protected_lanes_100_km_bike_blvds_by_2016/?bYaioab&v=47338">Bike Lanes for Toronto Now! #MinimumGrid</a>. It’s calling on all Mayoral candidates to commit to creating a Minimum Grid of 100 km of protected bike lanes and 100 km of bicycle boulevards by 2018. <o:p></o:p></span></h1><p>p.s.s. Find out more about voting on Oct. 27, where and when, advance voting, your ward candidates, etc. <span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.citynews.ca/2014/10/07/toronto-election-voting-guide-who-when-where-how/">here</a> </span>and <a href="http://app.toronto.ca/vote/campaign.do">here</a>. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>