Edmonton Headlines
Let’s check the time. Yup. It’s news o’clock!
While the LRT extension to the southeast might not get built as fast as when we might have had Expo dollars to throw around, you’ve got to think the people of Mill Woods are going to be nervous they will again miss out. Hold tight, little buddies! The NAIT extension looks good though.
EPCOR didn’t deal with as many water-main breaks as usual this January. Surely this story won’t jinx us for February.
Boyle Street Services has a new outreach worker hitting the streets to tell homeless people about its services.
An Edmonton haiku contest for the Edmonton Transit Service has won us some recognition. Not the kind you want, mind you.
Sounds like the CBC has found some sketchy dealings at a school on the Enoch Cree Nation.
NAIT is asking the provincial government to let is cut seven programs.
Speaking of school…wanna buy one?
February 9 Edmonton Headlines
So, before we get all budgeted-out (and we will, just you wait) I
I don't want to shovel my front walk, let alone an LRT station.
figured it would be a good time to tell a story that really goes nowhere.
There’s this Toyota dealership by my house, and I often walk through its parking lot. Sometimes I feel bad about this and think I should go around and use the sidewalk. Only sometimes.
Most of the time I don’t feel bad since they have a giant parking lot that is so close to my house and easily cuts 38 seconds off my walk to somewhere else. There’s also the constant stream of dealership garbage, and tires, that rolls into our parking lot. So, I don’t really feel bad about cutting across their property.
To be fair, I’m sure drunk Whyte Avenue patrons roll a lot of the tires our way.
Plus, if the Toyota guys ever got up in my grill about my pedestrian ways, I’d probably just tell them I tried to stop and go in a different direction but I couldn’t stop.
You’re wondering why you even come here, right now, aren’t you?
About the Alberta Budget:
Spending cuts expected to be spread around
Alberta budget will ask all to ‘give up a little’ (No! Just cut all the arts funding or something.)
Morton’s first budget will be a tough one
Alberta Budget Day: Public agencies brace for cuts
Morton in no-win situation with budget (The budget isn’t actually his budget since he just became the finance minister.)
This is too delicious not to share with you. Mack tried the most obvious name and password combination and got in…to the Alberta Budget website. “Your Alberta Government, using “password” as a password since Geocities.”
from the Edmonton Journal:
Rowdy opening to spring session
WCB hostage case in disarray (Marked by a weird court appearance.)
Limits on taxis’ lifespan would curb emissions
Winds of change in green power
Fort update risks losing authenticity, prof says (If there’s anything authentic about Edmonton frontier days it’s a log flume.
Young Alberta athletes get early taste of Olympic glory
from the Edmonton Sun:
New sky shuttle service takes off
Rush demands break on Rexall revenues (Sounds like hockey is getting more than lacrosse.)
‘Unfair ruling’ on asking questions
from 630CHED/iNews880:
More trouble “on the buses” (Now I’m questioning whether all the news coverage is giving this kind of crime a “tipping point” effect.)
UofA researcher identifies concerns with CT scans
from CBC Edmonton:
Airport cab fare solution going to vote
Nuclear prospects worry farmers (Not quite Edmonton, but also important.)
from Global Edmonton:
YESS warning (Don’t get fooled by this scam.)
from CityTV Edmonton:
Downtown Proud (Cleaning up the streets.)
Are you already tired of budget stories?
