{"id":15665,"date":"2020-10-19T22:57:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=15665"},"modified":"2020-10-19T22:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T02:57:47","slug":"gladys-atrill-and-mika-meyer-newly-elected-to-smithers-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/gladys-atrill-and-mika-meyer-newly-elected-to-smithers-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladys Atrill and Mika Meyer newly elected to Smithers Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Photos courtesy of Gladys Atrill for Mayor Facebook page and Mika Meyer for Town Council Facebook page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On October 17th 2020 the town of Smithers in Northern BC held a municipal by-election which resulted in interim mayor Gladys Atrill winning the seat as Mayor by a landslide 75% voter decision and newcomer to council Mika Meyer receiving most votes by 9% over second place Colin Bateman.<\/p>\n<p>Mika Meyer said her first order will be to install the Pride rainbow sidewalk which have been much contested by Pro-Life \/ Anti LGBTQ2+ communities in Smithers.<\/p>\n<p>Gladys Atrill said she is moving ahead with council's plans for 2020 and 2021 activities as well as progressing the town's library \/ community centre build.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to Atrill and Meyer on CICK News on October 20th.<\/p>\n<p>The attached clip is from Dan Mesec's interview with Mika Meyer. She is talking about the experience of campaigning during a pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos courtesy of Gladys Atrill for Mayor Facebook page and Mika Meyer for Town Council Facebook page. On October 17th 2020 the town of Smithers in Northern BC held a municipal by-election which resulted in interim mayor Gladys Atrill winning the seat as Mayor by a landslide 75% voter decision and newcomer to council Mika&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":15672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,218,225],"tags":[],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15665"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=15665"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=15665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}