Edmonton Headlines
Parking rates are going up. (Click for details.)
Well, Edmonton, we made it through the short week. Now its five-day weeks for a month. But it’s the weekend now, so that’s something.
While this story may be about Garneau residents trying to keep bars from spilling off of Whyte Avenue, I like the part about the City’s planning and development department keeping closer tabs on what’s happening with business licenses.
The Edmonton Sun says Councillor Karen Leibovici should not be voting on downtown arena deals, because her husband is an executive with a Katz pharmacy chain.
An inner city crisis team is touting its successes on the streets of Edmonton.
The Edmonton International Airport has shifted from “stopping the Calgary habit” to getting Edmontonians to “Unite for More Flights.” Essentially, the EIA’s new campaign to get people to fly out of Edmonton is centered on the fact more people flying from here could mean more flight options.
A couple of missing men in uniform have been found. It’s not clear what happened to an EPS officer reported missing, and it’s a sad end to the story of a missing soldier.
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Teachers are going to be cut because of tight education budgets, and the fight to get the Alberta government to pay for better education is on.
Slave Lake residents – those with homes to go back to anyway – are returning to the town after a devastating wildfire.
A couple of front-runners in the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership (or, Premiership) race are talking about new rules and changes to improve government transparency.
As northern Alberta burns, southern Alberta is soaked.
Alberta’s only non-Conservative MP, Edmonton-Strathcona’s Linda Duncan, is going to be in the NDP’s shadow cabinet.
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Former Edmonton Eskimo quarterback Jason Maas is retiring from football.
Election Headlines
You know where we start today. The federal election!
The Conservatives have won a majority government. Basically, this is Christmas morning to those who have been hoping for this since the PC Party and Alliance joined forces last decade. (more…)
Edmonton Headlines
Good morning and good budget, Edmonton.
Yes, the federal budget came down Tuesday, with much fanfare. The budget itself isn’t all that much to write home about (Do people still write home about such things?) but it’s the reaction of the opposition parties – that they likely won’t support this budget – that means something. That means we could see an election.
Yippee!
I guess it also means the opposition parties could take another shot at a coalition government, if they brought down the Stephen Harper Conservative minority. I kind of wish our parliamentary system could use all of its tools before sending people back to the polls for another minority government. Who knows, maybe the new Governor General would understand it’s a totally legitimate and legal way for our system of government to run.
But enough about coalitions…check out the budget!
While generally supportive (what else are you going to do when you’re both big C Conservatives) the Premier would have liked to have seen more healthcare money from Ottawa. Alberta’s one, lonely non-Conservative, Edmonton-Strathcona’s New Democrat MP Linda Duncan, isn’t a fan of the budget.
Meanwhile…back in Edmonton… (more…)
March 4 Edmonton Headlines
I am going to climb you.
Good morning, Edmonton. Let’s start things off with some good news. The 10-year plan to end homelessness may be working.
Project KARE has paid out reward money, but won’t say how much of a promised $100,000 has been handed out or for which cases. And I think there are still plenty of unsolved murders of women in high-risk lifestyles.
Lawyers for an Edmonton man accused in a terrorist bombing want the judge currently on the case to give them a chance to see evidence seized by the RCMP.
More than just motorcycles may soon be targeted by Edmonton’s noise bylaw.
There are anti-arena billboards (at least anti-City money funding the project) and now there’s a pro-arena billboard. I do want to say, to the mysterious billboard purchaser, that Winnipeg is just fine. Heck, they even have a downtown arena so…wait…is this a pro-arena billboard?
A new Edmonton police station is among the projects landing money through a provincial fund for municipalities.
Speaking of Edmonton police…officers are getting better winter gear.
EPCOR’s stepping up its water main replacement this year, while it deals with a biggie over on 109 Street, north of the river.
There weren’t any major increases in passenger traffic through the Edmonton International Airport last year, so maybe the “Calgary habit” continues…
I don’t know, Canada Post, the sidewalk pictured in this story looks pretty good to me.
And there’s more! (more…)
Prorogue this!
Living in Old Strathcona you’re never too far away from this rally or that protest. This weekend was no exception.
Edmontonians took the streets, and then Dr. Wilbert McIntyre (Gazebo) Park, to show the Prime Minister they’d rather have him, and all elected MPs, back in the House of Commons.
The interesting thing about this day of protest, across the country, was that things started on Facebook.
Could the Internet be turning around all of our political apathy? (more…)
