Every city has less and more desirable areas. You can see this somewhat reflected in crime stats and probably also in neighbourhood income levels. Usually there have to be trade offs to entice people to live in less desirable areas - convenience such as closer location to many things and...

Obviously, it is very hard to predict the future and timing, but when things get out of whack, there tends to be some sort of reversion to the mean. This means assets that have under performed in the last decade or so may do better and those that have over performed may not do so well for a...

Yes, owing gives a person more freedom to modify or improve the place and more certainty budget wise (rent increases can be quite large and unexpected). Also, I feel it is a mistake to assert something will work out financially by projecting past performance into the future. Good investment...

It is actually quite a nice parkade and despite the past problem seems better than many others around.

I believe it closes at 9 pm, the problems in the LRT station near the entrance seem to get worse later in the evening. Not sure if this is directly related, but I do feel there should be more attention to this area of the LRT station especially at this time.

Is this April fools come early? I am skeptical about the numbers being thrown around $70 billion, they just don't make any sense. I am just trying to figure out what the scam is here - maybe inflate land values in the area for the benefit of someone?

Recent city councils have made a big deal about reducing homelessness. If they are not sufficiently embarrassed, the chart showing how quickly it is rising should do it. It should be pulled out when they are out campaigning for reelection. Of course they will blame the province and the...

If transit construction requires removal or replacement of other infrastructure that wouldn't be necessary otherwise, then it probably should be part of the budget for the transit project. If our governments are tossing in a bunch of other things that are nice to do or upgrades while we are at...

Yes, keeping people poor, uneducated and backwards seems to have worked very well for certain politicians in the US and elsewhere. For the younger ones now they even have social media that is becoming like Fox News. We don't have quite the same in Canada, but you couldn't truthfully claim that...

I feel even a lot of Edmontonians are not that aware of the underground part because it is not as noticeable, particularly for those who do not use transit much.

It doesn't, but hopefully it increases the political will to deal with these things if they can't be dismissed as problems concentrated in one area we can avoid or ignore, which I feel has been the prevailing way of thinking in the past.

There is still a perception this is a downtown problem. Unfortunately, these problems are no longer just in the downtown core, or adjacent inner city (areas such as Kingsway), but are becoming more pervasive in the city. There is no fence that keeps these people in a small area so they now...

A party that is Free Enterprise only on M W and F, does not deserve to claim it is free enterprise. I feel the current bunch in our government is trying to set us up to be an island of fossil fuel resistance while the rest of the world moves ahead. This may be comforting in the short run to...

https://edmontonjournal.com/life/homes/wealth-transfer-already-starting-to-drive-edmonton-real-estate-sales Along the lines of this article here is a hypothetical but I feel fairly realistic example: say an older parent sells their home and then gives their two kids $200,000 each to buy real...

The odds are probably better if you have tickets for Oilers game, invite cabinet ministers, the Premier's staff and others. If you are worrying about this being embarrassing when it comes out, I believe they have been working on changing the rules to try keep it secret.

I agree, but it seems like pulling teeth to get more transit service to our airport. I was very disappointed the city did not go ahead with some direct service to downtown earlier. I don't think the tourist experience is Edmonton is very good because of some of the these issues we fail to...

This all makes good sense and seems to be the whole point of this process, to give feedback to help improve the look, feel and function of buildings in the area. It is good when the process works.

This is how autocratic governments work - they extend their powers to control others and control the flow of information.

I haven't been there for quite a while, but isn't there actually already mall here in Edmonton that also has housing above it called Hub Mall at the U of A? If that is still around, maybe we should also look at it as an example. I don't know if the two or three upper floors of the old Woodward...

I suppose the data centres idea is less hare brained than the one the UCP had a few years ago to try attract a lot of bitcoin mining with our not so cheap electricity, but I feel this will be like that one - some initial flash, with little actually happening. It seems to be how this government...