ABORIGINAL CITY
- EVENT April 23: Bought your tickets yet? The Walrus Talks Aboriginal City [The Walrus]
- Youths picked to ‘jolt’ city managers about legacy of residential schools [Edmonton Journal]
- Acclaimed Alberta artist Alex Janvier gets $700,000 arena public art commission [Edmonton Journal]
- One year after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, an Aboriginal ceremonial space is nearly ready [Edmonton Journal]
- Ghosts of Camsell: Unearthing Stories from the Charles Camsell Hospital [Edmonton Heritage Council]
HERITAGE
- Heritage planners seek bits of old city to tell the story of Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
- Nate Box’s Little Brick preserves big slice of history [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton group hoping to bring more attention to heritage properties [Metro News]
- Video: Lego model shows World War I era Hotel Macdonald [Edmonton Journal]
- Lees: Move over Toronto, we’ve got our own tunnel mystery [Edmonton Journal]
ALBERTA BUDGET
- Tough Alberta budget not so tough on municipalities [Metro News]
- What does Alberta’s Budget 2015 mean for Edmonton? [MasterMaq]
- Alberta budget 2015: Full coverage [Metro News]
- Police spend millions on people from outside Edmonton [Metro News]
TRANSIT
- Cautiously Optimistic: City of Edmonton says May opening for Metro Line LRT still on target [Metro News]
- Cell service, Wi-Fi expanding into entire LRT system as an important safety measure [CBC]
- Edmonton’s late night transit service won’t initially have extra security [Metro News]
- Concordia University College of Alberta students opt out of U-Pass plans [Metro News]
- Survey: Light Rail Transit in Edmonton and the places around them. [Edmonton Insight Community]
GETTING AROUND
- Edmonton Bike Coalition pushes for bike lanes, signage on MacEwan University property [Metro News]
- In complete communities, pedestrians take precedence [Toronto Star]
- Babin: How a Calgary teacher is defying legal threats to create Bike to School Day [Calgary Herald]
- Edmonton Freezeway capturing imaginations around the world, but city remains silent [Metro News]
- Is nixing car parking for bike lanes good for Edmonton business? [Metro News]
- Driving kids around is statistically more dangerous than letting them roam freely: The Case for Free-Range Parenting [NY Times]
LOCAL NEWS
- Check out the design concept for an expansion of the Winspear Centre! [Winspear]
- Centre for Arts and Culture moves forward with a new look [MacEwan University]
- Edmonton’s Most Notorious Strip Club Is a Family Affair [Vice]
- Edmonton pushing ahead with work to boost infill housing [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton resident pushes city to ‘daylight’ Mill Creek during LRT construction [Metro News]
- Mature Edmonton neighbourhoods contain 60 hectares of vacant lots, city report shows [Edmonton Journal]
- Major Edmonton projects hit delays and cost more when details add up [Metro News]
MISCELLANY
- In Canada, you are where you live, population profiles say [Globe and Mail]
- Mapped: 10 years of unprecedented change in Canada’s cities [Macleans]
- Play This London Fountain Like the Classic Video Game ‘Snake’ [City Lab]
- Sky dwellings: the transit operators building real estate over the tracks [The Guardian]
- Suburban sprawl is stifling the US economy [Vox]
- The steep costs of living so far apart from each other [Washington Post]
- New ‘Tactical Urbanism’ Book Signals the Way to Equitable, Funded City Planning [Next City]