The businesses between 151 Street and 156 Street are really hurting. That section of SPR is a virtual ghost town now.

If you owned a business along the line that was struggling to survive the construction period, you wouldn't be so eager to "kick out the cars."

I go based on results. John Muckler delivered a Cup win, the only Oilers coach besides Sather to do so. Craig MacTavish got an underdog team to within a game of an utterly unexpected sixth Cup. At best, Woodcroft is #4. While I wish Knoblauch the best, I'm so sick of being sold a bill of goods...

So the club that selected Alexis Lafreniere over Tim Stuetzle has given a key coaching position to the guy who was the reason the Oilers didn't win the Stanley Cup in 1985-86. Sounds about right.

There will be pylons and elevated track in front of homes on a section of 87 Avenue with the Valley Line, and for a brief section behind people's homes west of 178 Street. I'd say that's the price for living on a busy corridor, just like 83 Street.

You're not accomplishing anything by trying to showboat. I get that you're probably working on your Rhetoric homework between games of D&D in your parents' basement, but you have yet to make a convincing argument that invalidates mine. The people who vote UCP are a minority in terms of the...

I never spoke about the total number of eligible voters in Alberta, I was talking total population...less than a million people out of the total population of 4M+ actually went to the polls and voted UCP. That's a less than a quarter of the entire population. The people who voted UCP, in other...

Cute. Most people with any awareness of the world will understand that, with the exception of dictatorships with sham elections in which the man at the top gets 99% of the vote, not everybody in a given province or country supports the ruling party. Anyone who knows anything at all about...

I would never draw conclusions about "everyone in Quebec" based on the policies or statements of Premier Legault. Nor would I judge all Indians based on the (increasingly erratic and dictatorial) behaviour of Prime Minister Modi. Nor would I malign all Hungarians because of the authoritarian...

I wish I could get excited. But this will be yet another example of the City cheaping out and cutting corners on legacy infrastructure. Like the at-grade crossing of University Avenue instead of a tunnel, the at-grade crossings around Kingsway, the bus stop for the Valley Line at Bonnie Doon...

Sohi's only been in office for two years and seems to be doing a decent job. Let's not start planning his replacement just yet. That being said, the name I keep hearing as a future mayor is Ashley Salvador.

This team was supposed to be a Stanley Cup favourite this season...it can't even beat the worst team in the league. There are issues all over the place...goaltending, defense, scoring. At what point do we face reality and commence a rebuild?

Cartmell's out to lunch, there's no spinning it. He tried to stop the Valley Line West and even got all emotional over it at a council meeting (which made him look like an idiot)...

Anyone formulating their views of Alberta on a single elected official is either uneducated, simple-minded or unwilling to learn much about the wider world. It's like someone drawing conclusions about the United States solely based on Donald Trump: in the U.S. everyone therefore must be...

My fear is that with this latest reorganization of AHS the hospital project is going to get lost in the chaos. There will be so much upheaval going on and so many competing priorities that it will just fall off the radar. I'll say it again: elected municipal councils in the Edmonton area (not...

It never bothered the Klein Conservatives when patients were jammed in the hallways in hospitals during the worst of the cuts in the 1990s. People were dying in corridors and it didn't seem to make any difference...nor did it to the public, who continued to vote Conservative solidly until 2015.

Regardless of what the UCP does at their convention, I hardly think this reflects on Alberta as a whole. Look at the progress that has been made over recent decades. Edmonton and Calgary have both had female mayors, Edmonton as far back as thirty-four years ago. Alberta is the only province in...

As I've said elsewhere on this board in relation to other projects, I go based on past performance. I'm not the only one who fears that this government--which feels that it "owes" Edmonton nothing given that the capital voted entirely NDP--will find a way to delay or postpone this project...

A single byelection, regardless of how it goes, will do nothing to change the overall result--Smith still has a majority. Unless you have eleven byelections, and the NDP wins every one of them, the reins of power aren't changing hands. I understand the wishful thinking, but the only two...

Nothing will happen on the southwest hospital project until the NDP win the 2031 election under leader Sophie Arab.