2 hours ago Edmonton running extra shelter bus shuttle, adds 50 temporary spaces for extreme weather

Edmonton will run one more nightly shelter shuttle bus, allow anyone to hop on the bus at every stop to get out of the cold, and open 50 more shelter beds temporarily until extreme temperatures subside. The City of Edmonton activated its extreme weather response Friday as a snowfall warning came into effect with 15-25 […]

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2 hours ago How bad is Edmonton Oilers goaltending just now? You don't want to know

A quick post about an ugly stat. Like many of my fellow Edmonton Oilers fans, I’ve been digging in what’s wrong with the Oilers, trying to figure out where the holes are and how they might be fixed. The last thing I wanted to look at was goaltending, mainly because that’s the obvious thing that […]

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5 hours ago Doug Ford just got even tougher on Ontario bike lanes with new measures

As if Doug Ford's plan to take control of bike infrastructure across Ontario wasn't troubling enough for those who travel on two wheels, the premier is moving to invoke some heavy-handed measures that would go as far as preventing anyone from suing the Province for injuries sustained where it chose to remove downtown cycle paths.The controversial Bill 212: Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act has garnered the public's full attention — likely strategically so — since it was first revealed in October, when the government asserted that more oversight of bike lanes was key to "tackling gridlock and getting drivers and commuters across Ontario out of traffic."Toronto and its legendary congestion are at the heart of the...

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5 hours ago Trudeau n’indemniserait pas les provinces dont la taxe provinciale serait levée

Et Québec ne lèvera pas sa TVQ dans la même période que la TPS sans compensation fédérale, a explicité Eric Girard.

Politics

5 hours ago All bets are on: What's with this new Edmonton casino, by way of Camrose?

Edmonton charities aren't happy with the relocation of the casino because it will benefit rural charities as opposed to local ones

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5 hours ago Michael Higgins: Navy brass need to stop worrying about microaggressions in song lyrics

Do we really need to be this fragile and sensitive about an official march that covers events from 265 years ago?

Events

7 hours ago Toronto's $27 billion Ontario Line just crossed its biggest construction milestone so far

The new Ontario Line subway has just crossed its most important construction milestone to date, with the province announcing on Friday that it had broken ground on the tunnelled phase of the new 15.6-km line connecting Exhibition Place with the recently-shuttered Ontario Science Centre.Friday marked the start of excavation for the tunnel's launch shaft at the future Exhibition Station, kicking off construction of the first major subway tunnel constructed through downtown Toronto in more than six decades.It has been a hot start to construction since the project's December 2021 ground breaking. Now approaching the three-year anniversary of shovels hitting the ground, work is set to embark on the six-kilometre-long tunnels that will carry Ontario Line trains between Exhibition Station...

Economics

7 hours ago Keith Gerein: Cartmell's candidacy signals the start to a fractious year on Edmonton civic finances

There is still much to shake out over the next 10 months, but Cartmell's candidacy gets the campaign off and running in a certain direction. It's now a wait on Sohi to determine the next turn of the race

Culture

7 hours ago Ottawa discute avec Québec en vue d’un éventuel congé de TVQ, en plus de celui de TPS

Le gouvernement Legault ne serait pas fermé à une compensation pour cette période sans taxe.

Culture