The_Cat
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^^ The UCP types hardly visit downtown, except when they complain about that lack of policing.
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Gronk!
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I didn't even bother reading the article since it's written by that fucktard Colby Cosh
northlands
Senior Member
Is there even a 7-Eleven left in downtown? The one he references as remaining is also closed.
IanO
Superstar
Nope.
The levels of loss, damage and staff safety issues were beyond them.
The levels of loss, damage and staff safety issues were beyond them.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Super Big Beer!
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7-Eleven is opening seven new licensed dine-in locations in Alberta this week | Dished
Adult customers can order beer and wine at a 7-Eleven Canada! This applies to takeout, home delivery, and even in the remodelled dining areas.
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archited
Senior Member
Isn't it interesting how 7-Eleven picked Edmonton for its first experimental dine-in outing. Same with California Pizza. There's a restaurant-themed trend here. So maybe some of the closed locations will be re-opening under the new format.
Aaron_Lloyd
Active Member
I believe both the Loaded Pierogi (RIP) and Burger Priest on Jasper were those companies' first expansions outside Ontario as well.
IanO
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Cabinet task force to tackle Edmonton social issues
December 13, 2022 Media inquiries
The Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force will address social issues through a coordinated response between the province, city and local partners.
Addiction, homelessness and public safety issues have affected every community in Alberta, with Edmonton being especially hard hit. To address these issues and build on the province’s recovery-oriented system of addiction and mental health care, Alberta’s government is forming the Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force.
The task force will implement a series of initiatives in the Edmonton metropolitan region as part of a $187-million commitment to address addiction and homelessness in Alberta’s urban centres. In Edmonton, $63 million of this funding will go toward dramatically increasing access to addiction services and supports over the next two years, and $19 million has been allocated to combat homelessness.
“Addiction has become one of the most urgent social issues facing our province, and one of the most complex. This task force will bring community partners together to implement a series of recovery-oriented initiatives, enhancing public safety and improving addiction and mental health care in Edmonton.”
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
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Task force members are:
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services (chair)
Jeremy Nixon, Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services
Rebecca Schulz, Minister of Municipal Affairs
Chief Billy Morin, Enoch Cree Nation
Chief Isaac A. Laboucan-Avirom, Woodland Cree First Nation
Tim Cartmell, pihêsiwin Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Sarah Hamilton, sipiwiyiniwak Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Dale McFee, chief of police, Edmonton Police Services
Kerry Bales, senior program officer, Provincial Addiction and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services
Graeme McAlister, associate executive director, EMS Operations, Alberta Health Services Edmonton Zone
Susan McGee, chief executive officer, Homeward Trust
Also invited, pending City of Edmonton approval:
Andre Corbould, city manager, City of Edmonton
Joe Zatylny, fire chief, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services
December 13, 2022 Media inquiries
The Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force will address social issues through a coordinated response between the province, city and local partners.
Addiction, homelessness and public safety issues have affected every community in Alberta, with Edmonton being especially hard hit. To address these issues and build on the province’s recovery-oriented system of addiction and mental health care, Alberta’s government is forming the Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force.
The task force will implement a series of initiatives in the Edmonton metropolitan region as part of a $187-million commitment to address addiction and homelessness in Alberta’s urban centres. In Edmonton, $63 million of this funding will go toward dramatically increasing access to addiction services and supports over the next two years, and $19 million has been allocated to combat homelessness.
“Addiction has become one of the most urgent social issues facing our province, and one of the most complex. This task force will bring community partners together to implement a series of recovery-oriented initiatives, enhancing public safety and improving addiction and mental health care in Edmonton.”
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
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Task force members are:
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services (chair)
Jeremy Nixon, Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services
Rebecca Schulz, Minister of Municipal Affairs
Chief Billy Morin, Enoch Cree Nation
Chief Isaac A. Laboucan-Avirom, Woodland Cree First Nation
Tim Cartmell, pihêsiwin Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Sarah Hamilton, sipiwiyiniwak Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Dale McFee, chief of police, Edmonton Police Services
Kerry Bales, senior program officer, Provincial Addiction and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services
Graeme McAlister, associate executive director, EMS Operations, Alberta Health Services Edmonton Zone
Susan McGee, chief executive officer, Homeward Trust
Also invited, pending City of Edmonton approval:
Andre Corbould, city manager, City of Edmonton
Joe Zatylny, fire chief, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services
IanO
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TAS
Senior Member
Given the location of their wards I'm a bit surprised Coun. Cartmell and Hamilton were selected as city reps for this work. But given it's a UCP task force, maybe that is part of it - just pure and unsubstantiated speculation that probably has no business being made in this forum.Cabinet task force to tackle Edmonton social issues
December 13, 2022 Media inquiries
The Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force will address social issues through a coordinated response between the province, city and local partners.
Addiction, homelessness and public safety issues have affected every community in Alberta, with Edmonton being especially hard hit. To address these issues and build on the province’s recovery-oriented system of addiction and mental health care, Alberta’s government is forming the Edmonton Public Safety and Community Response Task Force.
The task force will implement a series of initiatives in the Edmonton metropolitan region as part of a $187-million commitment to address addiction and homelessness in Alberta’s urban centres. In Edmonton, $63 million of this funding will go toward dramatically increasing access to addiction services and supports over the next two years, and $19 million has been allocated to combat homelessness.
“Addiction has become one of the most urgent social issues facing our province, and one of the most complex. This task force will bring community partners together to implement a series of recovery-oriented initiatives, enhancing public safety and improving addiction and mental health care in Edmonton.”
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
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Task force members are:
Nicholas Milliken, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services (chair)
Jeremy Nixon, Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services
Rebecca Schulz, Minister of Municipal Affairs
Chief Billy Morin, Enoch Cree Nation
Chief Isaac A. Laboucan-Avirom, Woodland Cree First Nation
Tim Cartmell, pihêsiwin Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Sarah Hamilton, sipiwiyiniwak Ward councillor, City of Edmonton
Dale McFee, chief of police, Edmonton Police Services
Kerry Bales, senior program officer, Provincial Addiction and Mental Health, Alberta Health Services
Graeme McAlister, associate executive director, EMS Operations, Alberta Health Services Edmonton Zone
Susan McGee, chief executive officer, Homeward Trust
Also invited, pending City of Edmonton approval:
Andre Corbould, city manager, City of Edmonton
Joe Zatylny, fire chief, Edmonton Fire Rescue Services
I expect they will do a good job.
Gronk!
Senior Member
'Not approved by city council': Sohi blasts UCP over new Edmonton social issues task force
The Alberta government has a new 12-person team tasked with addressing addictions, crime and homelessness in the capital, but the city's mayor is not happy about how it's being done.
archited
Senior Member
Here is a little anecdote that I can tell (too many years have gone by so the innocents are now in rest homes or planted). My brother -- let's call him GFP -- was once upon a time a cop in Edmonton. On one call he was summoned to a house in the Boyle Street area that was occupied by a noted Edmonton-based motorcycle gang -- let's call them The Coffin Cheaters; as he and his partner walked through the house various "members" were making pig-like snorts, jeering and obstructing without "crossing the line" but coming as close as possible to it. Now an important note here is that it was a brisk winter's evening in the big E with the Mercury hanging around minus-30 degrees (for those Centigrade officiants vs. those of the Fahrenheit persuasion, at this point the two scales nearly converge into agreeance). The two cops took their time wandering about the place making their presence more of a subject's annoyance than specific to any substantive search for facts. As they were leaving one of the brave gang members let a huge green loogey fly, hitting the back of my brother's uniform. GFP turned to look the projector in the face and wryly smiled (he had seen one too many Dirty Harry movies). Back at his squad car and about 30-minutes later he took a half turn around the block to the rear of the property, but concealed from view from within the house. He then removed his power sling-shot from the glove box and proceeded to take out all of the subject structure's windows. At some point someone -- a resident within -- called the cops and you might guess who was first on the scene in response. At the front door once again GFP addressed the disgruntled gang -- "You boys should be kinder to your neighbors; it seems that someone has taken a sharp disliking to you. And may I suggest that you all take a bath; I have smelled more appealing hog barns, something that you boys seem to be akin to."
IanO
Superstar
Certainly a political move (statement).'Not approved by city council': Sohi blasts UCP over new Edmonton social issues task force
The Alberta government has a new 12-person team tasked with addressing addictions, crime and homelessness in the capital, but the city's mayor is not happy about how it's being done.edmonton.ctvnews.ca
Partisan politics need to be put aside for this kinda thing and focus on the outcomes, not the votes or composition.
The_Cat
Senior Member
UCP lectern message: “Solving Crime where it Doesn’t Exist!”
northlands
Senior Member
What exactly is the benefit (political/partisan or otherwise) of sneakily setting up a task force for Edmonton behind the Mayor and most of City Council's back, on purpose? It's just mind boggling the immaturity of this provincial government,