David Meslin is community organizer and activist in

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. He is the founder of the

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and Cycle Toronto, and organized

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. He was involved in founding 'Spacing' magazine, and has written a number of its articles. He also founded the

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. In 2010 he gave a

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Talk, ''The Antidote to Apathy''. In 2019, he released the book ''Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up'', which covers his accumulated experience to date about his three main themes of "billboards, bicycles and ballots", and more, advocating of course for an intelligent redesign of our governance systems.

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Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto

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The Antidote to Apathy

Teardown: Rebuilding Democracy from the Ground Up
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