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The question for many in the cycling community following City Council’s decision to remove bike lanes on both 95th and 40th Avenues is: what now? On the surface, it felt like a step backwards for a city that had made some positive strides in offering residents transportation options other than the four-wheeled variety. Mixed signals… Read More
Climate change and energy security are topics that garner a significant amount of attention, but they are issues that have become clouded with noise. To see the real gravity of the these issues, however, we don’t have to look much further than the disastrous Calgary floods of 2013, the increasingly intense summer storms we now… Read More
On Wednesday, City Council had a chance to discuss the West Rossdale development and refine a vision for the area we’re now calling ‘River Crossing‘. River Crossing’s new vision asks us to step back and consider the Rossdale development in the context of the wider area and the incredibly significant role the site has played… Read More
Given all the foreboding comments Premier Prentice had made in the weeks and months leading up to yesterday’s provincial budget announcement, we were all bracing for the worst. Instead, we got something in the middle. Generally, I’m pleased that the Premier and his cabinet listened to what we have been saying repeatedly over the past… Read More
There used to be a time when we would see the words ‘scaled back’ next to a city-backed project and applaud City Council for making a prudent decision. So when a few headlines bubbled up last week that pegged the new Blatchford plans as ‘scaled back’, it was a refreshing change to see some Edmontonians… Read More