{"id":2336,"date":"2011-08-29T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2011-08-29T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T19:35:35","slug":"spotlight-mike-yen-pc-candidate-in-the-2011-ontario-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/29\/spotlight-mike-yen-pc-candidate-in-the-2011-ontario-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Mike Yen, PC Candidate in the 2011 Ontario Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a MetroActive member,\u00a0Mike\u00a0Yen\u00a0depicts the qualities that we support: commitment, leadership, involvement, hard work, honesty and integrity. It is no surprise that\u00a0Mike\u00a0is a PC candidate in the October 6th Ontario election for the Trinity-Spadina riding where he has lived for the past four years and has strong relationships with the community. As a resident of a condo at Blue Jay&#8217;s Way and Wellington within the Trinity-Spadina riding, Mike cares about the growth and development of the downtown core.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in Scarborough\u2019s Malvern community\u00a0Mike\u00a0has an appreciation for cultural diversity which led him to major in History as part of his Bachelor of Arts degree from York University.\u00a0Mike&#8217;s cultural diversity experience has also been the driver for his volunteer activities over\u00a0the past 20 years, which have included managing, and coaching community sports programs and serving as a mentor to vulnerable youth.<\/p>\n<p>Since his graduation\u00a0Mike\u00a0has had a successful 10-year career as a federal servant.\u00a0Mike\u00a0is a strong supporter of small businesses noting the contribution they make to both the economy and unique communities within the Trinity-Spadina riding.\u00a0Mike\u00a0Yen\u00a0is determined to represent the issues that matter most to the Trinity-Spadina community at the Ontario legislature, where he will combine his values and experience of cultural diversity.<\/p>\n<p>MetroActive congratulates\u00a0Mike\u00a0Yen\u00a0on taking his caring of our community and commitment to leadership to the next level by running in October&#8217;s Ontario election. \u00a0We encourage our members to meet and get to know\u00a0Mike. This is your opportunity to share your concerns and desires with a man that could possibly be our next provincial government representative for the Trinity-Spadina riding.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Mike Yen, Ontario PC candidate for Trinity-Spadina on Wednesday, September 14th (6:00 pm &#8211; 8:00 pm) at the Pinnacle Second Cup (S\/E corner of Bay Street and Lakeshore Avenue, diagonal from the Air Canada Centre) by the Toronto waterfront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a MetroActive member,\u00a0Mike\u00a0Yen\u00a0depicts the qualities that we support: commitment, leadership, involvement, hard work, honesty and integrity. It is no surprise that\u00a0Mike\u00a0is a PC candidate in the October 6th Ontario election for the Trinity-Spadina riding where he has lived for the past four years and has strong relationships with the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metroactive.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}