GET INVOLVED
- Celebrate Métis Week November 9 -16 by checking out the many events around Edmonton [Alberta Metis]
- Nov 12: Submission deadline for the Edmonton Resilience Festival [The Local Good]
- Nov 17: Make Something Mondays: Co-Creating the Indigenous City [Make Something Edmonton]
- Nov 17: Submissions deadline for Winter Warming Huts at the University of Alberta [The SDA]
- Nov 21: Retrofutures – Edmonton’s Omniplex debate [ECAMP]
- Nov 24: Screening of the Human Scale and panel discussion [Make Something Edmonton]
- Nov 28: Submission deadline for illumiNITE urban light sculpture competition [MADE]
DEVELOPMENT
- 116-year-old building in Old Strathcona to be torn down [Global News]
- Blatchford: Connecting to Edmonton’s Future [City of Edmonton]
- Rendering of the proposed 51-storey rental towers on the Healy ford site [@jarrettcam]
- The unlucky 13 Edmonton office towers for city staff that lost to the Katz-WAM bid [Edmonton Journal]
- Historic building on 124th Street to make way for new highrise [CBC]
- Simons: Another one bites the dust? 124th Street landmark in question [Edmonton Journal]
TRANSPORT
- Opinion: Intermodal transit hub needed for passengers, too [Edmonton Journal]
- Council turns down new Greyhound station near Yellowhead [Edmonton Journal]
- Cell, Wi-Fi service coming for all LRT stations by end of 2015 [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton Transit using data analysis to track security trends, to predict trouble spots [Edmonton Journal]
- 5 Edmonton bus routes may get late night service in 2015 [CBC]
- Late-night transit should be part of Car Free Whyte Ave plan: Edmonton councillor [Metro News]
- U-Pass price expected to jump, Edmonton student reps say it’s expected [Metro News]
- Transit struggles with North America’s move downtown [Toronto Star]
- Reserve fund pitched for Edmonton photo radar revenue [Metro News]
- Edmonton councillor ‘optimistic’ 102 Avenue bike lane will get funded [Metro News]
- Official Suggests Pedestrians Carry Flags, Calgary Just Laughs [Huffington Post]
LOCAL NEWS
- Letters: Let’s forge a new partnership that respects role of cities [Edmonton Journal]
- A tale of two cities: Edmonton’s boom isn’t benefiting everyone [Global News]
- YESS artwork created by youth facing difficult realities an empowering endeavour [Metro News]
- Edmonton property-tax break of 1.5% in sight by 2018 [Edmonton Journal]
- New styles of garbage bins seem to be a waste, city report says [Edmonton Journal]
- High Level Bridge safety barriers may not be funded in upcoming Edmonton budget [Metro News]
- Grants available to low income residents for needed home fix-ups in Edmonton [Metro News]
- Edmonton business Spud.ca delivers organic, local fare to homes and offices [Metro News]
MISCELLANY
- 426-5050, whatever happened to the Lydo? [GigCity]
- Friday Nights: Love and music at the Rainbow Ballroom [ECAMP]
- Huge snowball fight planned at unknown Edmonton location [Metro News]
- How the latest playgrounds are making child’s play fun again [Globe and Mail]
- Five Most Common Misconceptions about Landscape Architecture [67 Architecture Road]
- The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise [Salon]
- Medicine Hat on track to become first Canadian city to end chronic homelessness [Calgary Herald]
- A case for height restrictions [Strong Towns]