I don't find the argument that we should continue to burden an already disadvantaged area with this service because it's only an expansion rather than brand new service provider to be a convincing one. I think people are kidding themselves if they don't think the users of these services would...

Really surprising news. A positive move for Chinatown, but hopefully a more appropriate location for these services can be found fairly quickly.

You were the one who implied I was being "paternalistic and patronizing" for having the gall to suggest that maybe we shouldn't force all the poor people to live in the same area. lol

Well, what your post seems to be arguing is that you took an Intro to Sociology course once but otherwise have a pretty naïve view regarding poverty stricken areas. 😄 I was only arguing that if you want The Quarters to be a sustainable and vibrant commercial and residential district you need to...

No? I think the ideal should always be to have mixed incomes. Needless to say if we are trying to achieve this in the Boyle area more low income housing is not what the area needs right now.

I don't think concentrating poverty in a single area is a win, no.

If the 1000 more people living there have minimal disposable income it's not going to stimulate any other sort of development in the area. If anything I'd wager it'd drag the area down even further by scaring off the sort of higher-end residential development which does pull-in people with...

Aah, $700,000 for the privilege of listening to motorcycles deafen you as they rip past your house at all hours through the summer. Could make a unique office for a company I suppose.

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/mayor-amarjeet-sohi-responds-with-rhyme-of-his-own-to-media-coverage-of-christmas-tree-1.6153779 City's so given up on Downtown they can't even bother to invest in a Christmas tree for Churchill Square anymore.

I agree, everyone should be contacting your councillors and demanding TransEd do the job right.

Went to the Kingsway Wal-Mart today, easily the nicest one I've ever been too. I've never felt less greasy after shopping at a Wal-Mart. 😄 Store design feels very modern, almost Ikea-like in a way honestly. I agree that it would have certainly been nice to have had the Home Depot moved from...

The new bike lanes are the basics of transportation infrastructure. Infrastructure is always going to need investment, it's not a one or the other whether we can keep up with our infrastructure while also ensuring public safety downtown.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/artist-calls-canadian-city-authoritarian-canceling-bison-fur-trade-sculpture-installation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/edmonton-pulls-bison-sculpture-colonialism-ken-lum

City promised real revitalization work was being done, poor AUM and Cidex fell for the City's BS.

Is it an issue that our LRT will be running 5 different rolling stock soon, are we missing out on some efficiencies of scale? Or is it not really a big deal?

http://kenlumart.com/the-buffalo-and-the-buffalo-fur-trader/

Don't worry they'll commission a report to figure out why all their previous report commissioning hasn't resulted in any actual results.

Seeing how poorly Project TENSOR went, seems we need to go "draconian". This isn't going to be a fine someone stumbles into, the drivers affected are almost certainly well aware their vehicles are an annoyance to thousands of people across the city every time they go for a ride. I don't see why...