Memo to: The Katz Group From: An Edmonton taxpayer Subject: Screw you This memo is in response to your recent memo to Edmonton City Council regarding the progress, or lack thereof, in the negotiations towards the construction of a new arena. If I may be blunt, let me just express my profound frustrations with your […]
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If Edmonton Northlands had a Facebook page, I’d be tempted to click on that ‘like’ button. I haven’t always been a fan of the not-for-profit ‘agricultural society’. It has always been an old boys’ club, and far too cozy with the PC elite. Over the years, Northlands has received hundreds of millions of dollars of […]
I’m sitting on my backyard deck as I write this, listening to a generic Top 40 hit radio station. I’m not listening voluntarily, mind you. A house next to mine is having a new roof installed, and the roofers have chosen to blast execrable radio station Hot 107 from the roof for everyone to hear. […]
Earlier this week, the city’s auditor released a quite damning report on the state of the city’s road design and construction branch. The report said that numerous cost overruns and delays on Edmonton’s endless road construction projects are the fault of a badly run department that keeps changing the rules of the game. City councilors […]
What’s that expression? Watch your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves? That appears to be the thinking behind Edmonton city council’s nickle and dime cuts to the city budget. On Monday, they cut the increase to garbage and recycling services budget by $500,000, which saves the average homeowner a grand total of […]
Open letter to city councillor Kerry Diotte Hello, Mr. Diotte. Or should I call you councillor? Or is it your majesty? Whatever. I hope you’re enjoying your new role as decision maker, as opposed to your old role as decision questioner when you were with the Sun. I see they’ve put you right to work. […]
