from the Edmonton Journal:Renner dismisses oilsands toxins report (I’m sorry, could someone float me a link or business card, is Rob Renner’s title Environment Minister or Oilsands Minister?)
Buyers gain the edge in Edmonton resale housing (I was pretty sure they had the edge for the last two years.)
We’ve got a couple of health stories from the Postmedia Network: Alberta schools to help push med students toward rural practice and Alberta health doles out $44M to boost health grads
From the Calgary Herald: Former speakers slam ‘bully’ Kowalski for abuse of power
‘No bodily functions’ signs working in inner-city park
Huge send-off for Gord Whitehead (Buried in this Graham Hicks column is the real question: Why does Edmonton’s news-talk station, 630 CHED, have no Edmonton news-talk programs, but two such shows out of Calgary? Are we taking crazy pills here at the edmontonian by always talking local?)
From the Calgary Sun: Alberta funded anti-oilsands film (We can’t have that. That’s not what arts and film grants are for, they’re not for art. They’re for government-approved art and film.)
Kids back to school (Try not to run them over, with their little bag lunches and backpacks.)
Garbage-to-biofuel plant launched in Edmonton (Come on, we’re all thinking about the end of Back to the Future now.)
Councillor calls for public vote on airport (Linda Sloan doesn’t care if the petition is legitimate, as long as those nice people tried really hard to do something. Gold stars for everyone!)
Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin appeals sentence (That was fast. I mean, he was only sentenced yesterday. The good news, if you can call it that, is that this means he can be at training camp. I think that will leave Edmonton with 23 goaltenders. It’s going to be a long year, Oilers fans.)
Delays expected on LRT as students head back to class (A good problem to have in one way; it proves that people will ride transit if it’s more frequent and connects to more parts of the city.)
Twilight not allowed to reopen
Police name Vader a suspect (This is in the case of the missing McCanns.)
Just a shame that on the same day Gord Whitehead retires, CHED also “supposedly” released two others that I respect greatly, Kris Burkholder and C.R. Nichols. They’ll be missed as well, hopefully they land somewhere else locally.
We’ve made the jokes before, about becoming a powerful media company so we could turf people at our whim. It’s just too bad it continues to be a relevant joke.
It will be interesting to see if they do land somewhere locally. Again, most newsrooms and media outlets are running pretty thin on staff.
Maybe some of those extra goalies can suit up at forward. Can’t be much worse than the forwards that played last year.
You’ll be eating your words when theedmontonian conglomerates with thecalgaronian and starts posting all of its updates from Calgary…
Are the comments still, uh, OK…? *gingerly pokes the comments*
I didn’t break them again…?
p.s. I wonder if the fine folks behind the ECCA petition were informing people of how much it would end up costing the taxpayers to get the issue on the ballot this fall…
Hey, Derjis, freedom isn’t free.
p.s. If you break the comments I’m going to give you something to cry about.
p.p.s. I won’t be eating words, I’ll be rolling around in mad media money like the executives at Corus, Rogers, Shaw, etc…