February 5 Edmonton Headlines
Birds! And an excuse to write "hoarfrost."
Hello, hello.
It was throne speech day yesterday. I’m sorry I didn’t play that up more Thursday. I bet you were really excited and you came here thinking I’d be in my political-nerd glory. Well, I forgot.
But I did watch (listen) to the speech from my desk yesterday. Mostly to count how many times they said competitive. It was 11. I was trying to win a free beer. I guessed 23 because I was thinking about the budget (which is next Tuesday!!!!!) which will likely talk much more about Alberta’s competitive competitiveness.
Anyway…enough about throne speeches (Miss you already, Norman Kwong.) let’s get this done and get to the weekend.
from the Edmonton Journal:
Smart card could replace Edmonton transit tickets (Yes!)
Experts offer tips on Edmonton schools ‘ open house season (Again, looking for someone to tell me how going to any school in the city keeps schools from closing…)
Seizing Edmonton’s northern ‘advantage’
Metis mining plan for river valley deserves honest assessment
from the Edmonton Sun:
“Government must live within its means”: Alta. throne speech (I’m going to throw this out there, and you can send it right back, but on the Internet you don’t have to abbreviate words like Alberta. The Internet gives you space to write and write and write and write and write and you don’t have to worry about fitting a headline on a newspaper page. Again, just putting that out there.)
Oil industry applauds reconciliation (This makes me think of another reunion…)
Taxi boss predicts ‘big fights’ over parking
New lost and found system in works for transit system
from Metro Edmonton:
Eating on $80 a month (This is going to tie into that story, just below, about minimum wage.)
Distinguished researcher calls it a career
from CBC Edmonton:
Stelmach to focus on health, competitiveness (Alberta must be competitive with the competition!)
EnCana unprepared for toxic gas leak: report
from CTV Edmonton:
Alberta’s minimum wage to stay the same this year (Which will work out well, since nothing, at all, is going to go up in price.)
Alberta’s jobless rate stays steady
from Global Edmonton:
House fire cause (The fire that saw three firefighters treated for injuries.)
And because it’s Friday, here’s one purely for its headline value: Man bit pregnant amputee’s stump, Edmonton court hears.
