March 11 Edmonton Headlines

Good day to you, Edmonton.

Of course I scheduled an off-site meeting the weekday morning there’s the most news (Thursday). Sorry about that. We’ll get right to the show.

But before we get to the real news, the big news, the important news, I think we need to talk about this news: Conan O’Brien is coming to the River Cree Casino as part of his “Legally prohibited from being funny on television” tour.

That’s right, he’s on a 32-city tour and he’s coming to our neighbourhood. Stop saying we have to buy “world-class” with a new arena and Expo, baby, we just arrived.

Following up on that point, you actually become world-class by just doing what you do, and eventually others will want to be a part of your action. Sure, that will end up costing money somewhere along the way, but it’s not something you just buy with one or two big-ticket items.

from the Edmonton Journal:

Homeless in the River Valley (An audio slideshow.)

Edmonton City Council puts $17M into rainy-day fund (Interesting to note that the surplus is actually about $17-million since the rest had to go to “previous commitments.”)

Premier’s gaffe tars communications staff (The poor dears. Though, they have a big job making Ed sound on top of things.)

Alberta legislature  question period reorganized after opposition complains

Edmonton’s NAIT to offer nanotechnology

Edmonton developer donates $2.5M to MacEwan

from the Edmonton Sun:

Website called waste of tax cash (No, we aren’t getting tax money to put out this fine product. But we’d take it. This is about Edmonton Stories.)

Businesses fined for fire code violations (I like that some just keep getting fined again and again.)

MLA heads to Europe to tout oilsands (At least we’re doing something about cleaning up the oilsands. We’re cleaning up its image. Don’t mention ducks, McQueen.)

from CBC Edmonton:

Companies spend $167M in Alberta land sale (Oil and gas companies, exploring for said oil and gas.)

from CTV Edmonton:

Parkdale School families gather to save school from closing (Now the Alberta Liberals are jumping on this issue, asking to examine the provincial-municipal policies that clash. Clearly you can’t be closing schools in areas where cities are trying to revamp the neighbourhood.)

City approves artificial turf for Commonwealth (Paula Simons has a few things to say about that.)

from Vue Weekly:

Sexual assault: defining assault

Lubicon rights: The right to govern (Did you know we had an internationally watched/panned land rights discussion happening here in Alberta?)

Aboriginal issues: increased role

Alberta economy, Oil and gas sector makes the rules (I guess people will make up their minds when they see the newest royalty review, today.)

from SEE Magazine:

The mystery of the vanishing home builder

Irrelevant and in your face (The Irrelevant Show is awesomely hilarious.)

from The Gateway (U of A):

Students’ Union prepares for march to legislature

Digital books seen as classroom alternative (And they might end up saving students money too.)

Stelmach’s back-paddling inane (Well, at least we know the Premier’s out of excuses for not paying attention to an international black eye.)

I’m with Coco.