Why do the good ones always go early?
First The Tonight Show loses Conan, now Edmonton loses Ray’s Sports Bar. Ray’s will leave a hole in Westmount that will be tough to fill. Unless the adult store in the strip mall just expands.
So…what’s in the news…
Looks like we’re waiting longer at the emergency room. When do these studies every find the wait times going down? One interesting little health-related tidbit comes from Olds, Alberta. The college is naming a building for former premier Ralph Klein (so many jokes about what fields of study there could be…) and he and Premier Ed don’t seem to agree on where to go with health care.
Well, I bet they don’t agree publicly. I mean, Premier Ed’s government was looking at cutting a little deeper until the public outcry forced him to shuffle out the health minister and renege on moves at Alberta Hospital.
It’s nice to see Ralph Klein’s still grabbing headlines. And not just for dumb stuff.
Two plans afoot for new Oilers arena (Funny thing is, I don’t even recall a new arena being approved by City Council. Huh.)
Proposed 29-storey condo tower casts shadow over Oliver
Web satirist targets political ‘bogeyman’ (I think fake Ed Stelmach is funnier.)
Fight to keep Alta. Hospital open ‘just beginning’
Liberals energy policy surprising (More details from The Canadian Press, below.)
Couple brings orphans home to Edmonton
City H1N1 clinics closing (I already forget about this flu.)
Alberta pharmacies threatened by cheap-drug plan, group warns (Maybe if we pay for Daryl Katz’s new arena he’ll put a pharmacist in each town.)
45 rabbits found on abandoned bus prompt charges (The front page, really?!)
Alberta Liberals adopt new industry-friendly energy policy, admit past mistakes (And bad mistakes…they’ve made a few…)
Alberta Education investigates reports of cheating
Bear spray attack was racially motivated, police say
Edmonton schools face possible closure (I think I need someone to explain to me why kids in the public system can go to whatever school they want, not just the one in their neighbourhood.)
Bottle Depot critical to Boyle Renaissance balks at city offer (At first I read that as if the Bottle Depot was going to be part of the new development.)
Thousands of jobs will be lost in Alberta cuts, labour group says
CFIA issues warning on recalled salami products (Does anyone even still eat packaged lunch meat after the whole Maple Leaf thing?)
Man who attacked disabled senior handed long-term offender status
$570/year fee approved by GFC (A new fee to cover budget shortfalls.)
