TRANSPORT
- Advocates blame ‘huge error’ after city backs away from car-free Whyte Ave. plan [Metro News]
- NAIT student union president calls Edmonton’s Metro LRT Line a ‘growing disappointment’ [Metro News]
- No timetable for installation of Edmonton’s electronic parking meters [Metro News]
- Learning from the Peace Bridge’s success: Calgary’s cycle tracks shouldn’t be controversial [Metro News]
- Edmonton should plan around the new car-less youth [Metro News]
- City tests new traffic technology on Whitemud Drive [City of Edmonton]
SOCIAL ISSUES
- If Burrow Central Station wants better security, they should try being better neighbors [Metro News
- Simons: Criminalizing poverty: What do we accomplish by locking up the poor for being poor? [Edmonton Journal]
- Parkdale Cromdale Community League loses appeal to stop another suite in a string of problem properties [Edmonton Journal]
- Wednesday’s Editorial: Are we blinded by the ‘Ice’? [Edmonton Journal]
- There are more than 100,000 Edmontonians currently living in poverty [End Poverty Edmonton]
LOCAL NEWS
- Video: Mayor Don Iveson talks about what it takes to grow smarter and stronger cities [The Agenda]
- Reconciliation works to be displayed at City Hall [Metro News]
- Video: the Camsell Hospital legacy [CTV News]
- $4M moose underpass almost ready near new Edmonton neighbourhoods [Edmonton Journal]
- Historic Edmonton mansion sold to family, could be used as bed-and-breakfast [Edmonton Jouranl]
- Staples: Which modern buildings will last 100 more years? [Edmonton Journal]
- City perhaps a bit sheepish after forbidden flock went unnoticed for 20 years in southeast Edmonton [Edmonton Journal]
- Transforming Edmonton: City Building 101 [City of Edmonton]
- Amarjeet Sohi stepping back from council for extra-long federal election campaign [Metro News]
MISCELLANY
- Call for Proposals: Park(ing) Day 2015 [Drawing Room]
- Edmonton Public Library unveils music sharing site [Edmonton Journal]
- Edmonton’s love affair with community gardens rich in history [Edmonton Journal]
- Buzz’tin myths about bees! [City of Edmonton]
- Five Reasons that Pop-up Museums Fit Right in with ECAMP [Edmonton Heritage Council]
- Why Are Bicycle Sales Declining (for the 14th year)? [Streets]
- Analysis reveals you are 60% more likely to be displaced by disasters today than in the 70s [NY Times]
- Moose Javians, Smithereens, Haligonians and Chemainiacs: Demonyms from coast to coast to coast [Government of Canada]