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This year’s three-year Operating Budget binder is exactly 734 pages long, and over the past week I’ve been over it numerous times looking for ways to reduce what Council is asking you to contribute to building, running, and fixing our City. When planning for this budget started, we were the fastest growing city in the… Read More
In a lot of ways, widespread infill development across our established neighbourhoods is a new concept to Edmonton. While traditionally we’ve seen small scale infill occur (i.e. replacing one older house with an enormous new house), the changes that City Council has recently endorsed (including subdividing lots 50’ and larger) enables more opportunities for diverse… Read More
Disappointing. Aggravating. Infuriating. There are a lot of words I could use to describe the Metro LRT Line project thus far (many of which are not family friendly). Thankfully, today’s release of the City Auditor’s report on the project offers up some clear findings on how we got to where we are today: weeks away from interim… Read More
There are very few projects that have conflicted City Council as much as the Galleria. Our hesitancy has sent mixed signals about whether Council believed this project was a good idea or not. But there were good reasons for hesitation. When the Galleria was first proposed several years ago, we were concerned with the level… 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