YEG WINTER
- Community dreams of an ice bridge across the North Saskatchewan [Edmonton Journal]
- Shake-Up Festival and Market to switch-up how Edmonton enjoys the cold [Metro Edmonton]
- Winter Shake-Up: Presenters blog about winter living [Winter Cities Shake-Up 2015]
- Ski club envisions future as hub of river valley activity [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton not looking at any changes to toboggan hills [Metro Edmonton]
- ‘Edmonton Freezeway’ could swap out commuters’ wheels for skates [CBC Edmonton]
- Edmonton Tourism attracting more visitors to ‘winter city’ [Global Edmonton]
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
- EVENT: Get on the bus for the Edmonton Infill Tour, January 24 and 27 [City Region Studies Centre]
- Alley of Light pocket park takes shape in downtown Edmonton [Mastermaq.com]
- Alberta’s renovated Federal Building to take staff, MLAs starting in February [Global Edmonton]
- New rental apartments, grocery store coming to Jasper Ave. [Edmonton Journal]
TRANSPORTATION
- Powder Pedalling: How to venture through the ice and cold on your bike [Avenue Edmonton]
- Citizen groups planned to address Valley Line LRT concerns [Edmonton Journal]
- Pogo CarShare signs up 350 users in first two months [Edmonton Journal]
- Change of mindset needed for Edmonton’s Whyte Avenue says business association head [Metro Edmonton]
- Parking lot proposed to replace Stony Plain Road meters [CBC Edmonton]
- Cracking Up: How bad are Alberta’s roads? [Alberta Venture]
SOCIAL ISSUES
- Interview with Rohan Nutall, creator of Through My Eyes documentary [Make Something Edmonton]
- An update on the initiative to end poverty in Edmonton [Mastermaq.com]
- Frigid temperatures push Edmonton homeless shelters past capacity [Metro News]
OTHER LOCAL NEWS
- Edmonton in 2014 [Mastermaq.com]
- Simons: In spite of low oil prices, Edmonton economy chugging along [Edmonton Journal]
- Local architects pick their favourite Edmonton buildings [Edmonton Journal]
- Average Edmonton house values rise 7.1 per cent to hit record $401,000 [Edmonton Journal]
- 2015 Property Assessment Change Maps [Edmonton Journal]
- Turning Edmonton’s High Level Bridge into a work of art [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmontonians more obese, live shorter lives than Calgarians: data [Metro Edmonton]
- Edmonton arena Wintergarden construction to close 104 Avenue [Metro News]
- Oilers in talks to bring Gretzky restaurant to new Edmonton arena [Metro Edmonton]
CURIOSITIES
- How Much Public Space Does a City Need? [Next City]
- Architecture Continues To Implode: More Insiders Admit The Profession Is Failing [Forbes]
- Wal-Mart: An economic cancer on our cities [Salon]
- The Everyday Sexism of Women Waiting in Public Toilet Lines [Time]
- How a surge of seniors in Canada’s suburbs poses new transport challenges [Globe and Mail]
- Urban Acupuncture Is Coming to America [Governing]
- Urban Ecologists Are Studying How Wildlife Have Evolved to Fit Their City Environment, Block by Block [New York Magazine]