Mack Male
Co-Founder and CEO of Taproot Publishing Inc.
Appears in 109 Episodes
#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 future of affordable housing according to our Christel ball
Giri Puligandla of the Canadian Mental Health Association and Christel Kjenner, the director of affordable housing at the City of Edmonton join Mack and Troy to talk a...