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JuNo shirt, no service
In the wake of a tragic police incident, we cover other policing news that happened this week. Plus, an update on trains, and affordable housing.Here are the relevant ...
More like LastGen, amirite?
Newly minted Taproot Edmonton reporter Colin Gallant joins to talk about the demise of NextGen. Plus, budget surpluses, meetings with the premier and, of course, parki...
#FreeTheBuffalo
We follow up on what 102 Avenue looks like with cars on it. Plus, updates on Buffalo art, the Alberta budget, drinking in parks, a police commission investigation, dow...
The pilot that lasted zero days
Council votes to open 102 Avenue to vehicle traffic before (after?) the one-year pilot even got underway. But don't worry, the pedway is doing fine.Here are the releva...
Edmonton's 15-minute sandboxes
Edmonton's administration drops a bombshell: apparently the city's relationship with the province is strained. Plus we dig into sandboxes, the screen industry, and bus...
News as hot as chili pepper spray
Council wastes a lot of time hearing about spicy things, but the Mansion Tax may be just a little too spicy for the city lawyers.Here are the relevant links for this e...
Paul Blart: Legislature Cop
The provincial government solves downtown safety — all it took was 12 rent-a-cops! Plus, the AI landscape in Edmonton does not look quite so grim.Here are the relevant...
What are you Bonnie Doon on the tracks there, bud?
Downtown is revitalized! I mean dying! I mean revitalized! Or maybe dying. It's hard to keep up. Plus, council talks OP12, which is the way of sneaking in even more bu...
S-plow-ing Mun-ice-pially
The snowplowing naming contest results are in and the result is clear: no one can name a single one on residential streets. Plus, council debates a new dog park pilot ...
Jeopardy 2022
Councillors Michael Janz, Ashley Salvador, and Anne Stevenson vie to see who is the Jeopardiest city councillor of them all.
Spending like a drunken sailor
The four-year capital and operating budgets have been approved! We'll break down everything you need to know about what this means for the next four years.
It's beginning to feel a lot like climate change funding is not something Edmontonians support broadly
City Manager Andre Corbould lets us know that the majority of Edmontonians are not on board with climate change funding. Debate over. Thanks Andre! Plus, the EPS has a...
To be or not to SDAB
This week, council has approved 209 new shelter spaces for this winter out of the financial stabilization reserve, and the SDAB has left the new Boyle Street location ...
Cracks in concrete may be worse than they ap-pier
The TransEd update on the Valley Line. In short the train is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad time. Plus the police ask council for JUST A BIT more money...
TREEGATE
There isn't going to be a Christmas tree in Churchill Square this year. We speak with Puneeta McBryan, executive director of the Downtown Business Association about wh...
It's beginning to feel a lot like budget
In the midst of the regularly scheduled November Ice Age, we follow up on the poor climate budgeting from last week. Plus, there was $5M in Downtown Vibrancy grants th...
The carbon usage that just won't budge-it
The city has released its carbon budget which projects the city coming nowhere close to meeting its goals, despite not really trying. We’ll also take a sneak peek at t...
A sense that the census might be 'spensive
The capital budget was released by the city and just like that all of our money went "poof". We'll dig in to where that spending is, and some of the ways that council ...
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred votes for another round of questions
It's been a year since council was elected; we'll take a look at what they've done - or not done. Plus updates on the police funding formula, Blatchford, and neighbour...
Getting Edmonton a Peas of the global pie
Sherri Bouslama and Chris McLeod from Edmonton Global join to discuss how Edmonton can attract new business and talent from around the world, and talk about the forwar...
The EPS phenotyping about-face
DNA phenotyping — something you probably haven't heard of before — was everywhere this week. That is, until the EPS were called out on their bunk science and tried to ...
My Edif-eyes are burning
The Downtown Recovery Coalition and the Edmonton Police Service funding formula make news this week without making any new or newsworthy changes to their composition o...
That's a knife
The EPS has been given a shove toward further accountability. But only a small one. (Did they have a knife?) Plus, the solar rebate has run out, and so too, it seems, ...
Whose jurisdiction is it anyway?
Welcome to the show where the province won't fund housing and the surplus doesn't matter! Plus, we'll update you on regional transit, single use plastics and building ...
EMTSC for thee, but not for me
Scona Pool may be closing, but the mayor wants outdoor pools open longer. Plus both regional transit and a six-storey apartment building in Glenora may be on the chopp...
A community revved up about pool closure
City council is making a lot of noise about vehicle noise, meanwhile the Friends of Scona Rec are making a lot of noise about the closure of their favourite pool.
Pig out on city council news
There's a whole buffet of news for you here, you porker! Valley Line delays, EPS funding increases, and sanction hearings are all being served, hot and ready!
This will be the best summer ever, I'm positive
It's the final week before summer break, so one last time before the summer we'll update you on everything council decided.
Our burning carbon questions
The deputy treasurer of the City of Edmonton joins to demystify the new and award-winning carbon budgeting process.
Pitching in on encampments
The city is backtracking on its encampment strategy, starting to investigate a plan to make property tax more progressive, and worrying that a huge amount of affordabl...