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Alanna de Boer

Alanna de Boer

Calgary-based communication strategist and learning & development professional at MNP, and active transportation advocate who co-leads a bike bus, runs Kidical Mass Calgary, and volunteers with Bike Calgary and More Neighbours Calgary.

Sep 23, 2026

23:30
Please feel free to jump in with any thoughts you've had percolating there.
23:35
Yeah, um, I think it's so interesting, like thinking about going down and speaking again.
23:43
And I have a lot of friends who are like, I'm so proud of you for doing that.
23:47
And they like watched my little clip that I shared of me at the public hearing.
23:51
I'm like, you can do it too.
23:53
Like, yeah.
23:54
Yes, I had a very long experience when I went, but it was, like, a really huge hearing.

10 MINS LATER

33:57
Alana, can you give us your final thoughts on public hearings, maybe a call out to people why they should show up and anything else that you want to add in here at the end of the show?
19:38
Um, yeah, I'll let you just dive into it.
19:41
Yeah.
19:41
Critical mass.
19:42
We started, um, I had another parent or another urban arrow parent, cargo bike parent, reach out to me and say, like, I think this is missing in our city.
19:51
Um, last summer, uh, at the time we were like organizing, like maybe quarterly, we would get like we would send out a Facebook message to like the Alberta cargo bike families group and say like let's do a ride let's meet up at a playground or like a coffee shop and like get together and talk about like cargo bikes and whatever else interests us community and we were kind of like this isn't enough like it's not it's just like not reaching enough people.
20:24
It's not often enough.
20:25
It's not, you can't like rely on it happening.

13 MINS LATER

33:40
Yeah.

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