ALBERTA ELECTION

• Alberta election: Where do the parties stand on cash for transit? [Metro Edmonton]
• Staples: Parties agree it’s time to build Alberta’s cities [Edmonton Journal]
• Alberta developers and builders concerned with city charters [CBC Edmonton]
• Elections Alberta sending some Edmonton residents 30 blocks to vote [Metro Edmonton]
• Ignore Edmonton at your peril, mayor warns next provincial government [Edmonton Journal]

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

• Editorial: Infill plan has solid foundation [Edmonton Journal]
• Edmontonians changing how we see the Quarters [Edmonton Journal]
• Buena Vista building proposal hits Edmonton city council [Metro Edmonton]
• Historic Buena Vista building will come down to make room for apartment tower [Edmonton Journal]

TRANSPORTATION

• Women ridership on Edmonton transit needs to be reflected in safety measures: advocates [Metro Edmonton]
• Smith: Changing the language of cycling safety in Edmonton: We’re all human beings [Metro Edmonton]
• Giving communities a voice could fix public perception of Edmonton’s photo radar [Edmonton Journal]
• Downtown Edmonton residents want parking congestion eased [Edmonton Journal]
• Seniors five times more likely to be killed in pedestrian crashes, city stats say [Edmonton Journal]
• Traffic disruptions map launched by City of Edmonton [CBC Edmonton]

YEG HI/STORIES

• Jane’s Walk lets neighbours meet, share stories and create lasting change [VUE Weekly]
• Edmonton Jane’s Walks Listings [Janeswalk.org]
• Evidence and Story – Archeology in Edmonton [Edmonton City As Museum Project]
• Simons: Connor McDavid not the only reason to be proud Metro Edmontonians [Edmonton Journal]

YEG FOOD

• Downtown Edmonton food spots closed during weekend days ‘the norm’ [Metro Edmonton]
• New Edmonton music, food venue planned for downtown [Edmonton Journal]
• Culina’s Brad Lazarenko takes over food at city golf courses [Edmonton Journal]

ENVIRONMENT

• City approves 20-year plan to cut energy, greenhouse gases [Edmonton Journal]
• Iveson: Efficiency and Opportunity – Edmonton’s Community Energy Transition Strategy [doniveson.ca]
• Mill Creek Ravine garbage ‘huge eyesore,’ say trail users [CBC Edmonton]

OTHER LOCAL NEWS

• City of Edmonton releases 2015 Community Report [City of Edmonton]
• Thousands of people jeopardized by loss of rental subsidies [Edmonton Journal]
• VIDEO: Turn Me In … by Battery Newman [Transforming Edmonton]
• Mouallem: Time for Edmonton get rid of its anti-renter prejudice [Mastermaq.ca]
• Urban beekeeping gets nod from Edmonton council [CBC Edmonton]
• Edmonton man banks on urban honey bees [Metro Edmonton]
• Airbnb enforcement ‘serious issue’ but not on Edmonton officials’ radar yet [Metro Edmonton]
• Silent contemplation replaces opening prayer at Edmonton council meetings [Edmonton Journal]
• Prayer at city council: what is faith’s place in local government? [CBC Edmonton]
• Edmonton councillors vote to remove ‘City of Champions’ from welcome signs [Metro Edmonton]

MISCELLANY

• End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile [The Guardian]
• Car-loving Calgary considers a 167-unit condo – with no parking [Globe and Mail]
• Federal transit funds too little, too late: Vancouver, Calgary mayors [Global News]