It's like Arnold Schwarzenegger wrote on that dirty van. (Photo: Derjis)
Happy Friday to you, my little Edmonton.
As was widely, widely, widely expected, the Alberta government has backtracked on its royalty rate hike (though, they’ve sort of cut some slack over the last few years) and is trying to spur more oil and gas investment.
Guess what? If a company’s business is oil and gas I can pretty much guarantee they are going to be coming for your oil and gas. Especially since Alberta isn’t a dangerous, war-zone kind of place or a nationalized energy jurisdiction. Our resource eh…
I’ll just put this soapbox back in the closet and we can get on with things. There’s some opinion on this in the Journal and Sun links, below.
Oh, I should mention the big, breaking story today is happening in the west end. Stay tuned to Twitter for real-time updates on the shooting.
Cost of borrowing for City of Edmonton projects up to $46M
Edmonton mulls reserved LRT parking (I’ve about had enough of Edmonton’s newsrooms having city hall “mull” things. This is becoming overused.)
Calgary may share public transit money
Website under attack (Is Edmonton Stories a waste of your money?)
Will royalty cuts placate oilpatch?
Who’s driving the royalty bus?
Alberta economy trails national growth rate
Edmonton’s Union expands (Not an actual union, you union-busters.)
Satirical anti-grizzly campaign launched in Alberta (Who doesn’t want to throw chainsaws and ATVs at bears?)
Katz’s fortune slips: Forbes Magazine (How surreal must it be to lose $100-million and not even really have to change anything?)
Parents voice concernd over possible school closure
Fighters bringing mayhem to city (This just makes me think of the movie Kickboxer. The first one, not its sub-par sequels.)
Capital Region plan gets provincial approval (Now, let’s all just get along.)
Candle light vigil at the ‘Ledge
Time to test your smoke alarm (It’s Sparky!)
Seniors protest MacEwan pool closure
Baby Isaiah taken off life-support, passes away in Edmonton hospital (When I was putting together the headlines yesterday I saw that a court appearance about Isaiah’s life-support was canceled. Something told me his parents wouldn’t have stopped the fight without a big reason…)
The Valley Zoo has another death on its hands. This time it’s a dead addax (think Antelope) at the zoo. This is the second animal to pass this year. But since this one isn’t cute like a meerkat we don’t know if it even had a name.
Wow, today kind of had a bunch of depressing news. Sorry to be such a downer.
So, how about I try to lighten the mood with a little self-promotion.
i’m not pointing any fingers, but i have seen derjis’ handwriting. and that dirt van looks like it’s been written on in derjis’ handwriting.