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Just because something might be more expensive doesn’t mean it’s not something worth doing…

It’s only trivial because of the preponderance of empty lots and empty buildings. And trivializing things that are a problem simply because they don’t inconvenience you at the moment is not a solution. And, for what it’s worth, I live within a stone’s throw of the area and have been actively...

It seems there’s always money to demolish things and not enough to fix them or repurpose them… The Remand Centre, the Coliseum, the old RAM, the Bank of Montreal on the Tegler site (a real 2 for 1!), the Walterdale Bridge, the old courthouse, the Carnegie Library, the downtown CPR Station, The...

You do know you can’t get from 95 Street to 97 Street on 103 Avenue nor can you get from 102a Avenue to Jasper Avenue or 103a Venue without leaving the Quarters and circling around? 101a Avenue is no real help either. I know some of this is partly a result of the oblique angle that Jasper...

^ 96th street isn't a functional street. You can’t drive from Jasper Avenue to 103a Avenue and you can’t drive from 103a Avenue to Jasper Avenue. Neither can your taxi or your Uber driver..,

Well PP is the source of an awful lot of hot air…

It’s being reported that the fire advanced 5 km in less than 30 minutes and was a wall of fire 100 to 300 metres high as the “crown” Was fully engaged. Fire breaks and/or added resources even 3/4 days ago are like fingers in a failing dike - too little too late.

While it was just “parts” Of the Jasper Park Lodge when initially confirmed, It will be a minor miracle if anything at all is left in Jasper by this time tomorrow. It will also be interesting if any infrastructure survives including the water treatment plant and Trans Mountain Pipeline...

^ Well we do have a funicular and they don’t…. :)

Comparing an arena to a tower is like comparing apples to oranges… You might visit the CN Tower while you’re in Toronto but my guess is almost nobody goes to Toronto simply to take an elevator to the top of the CN Tower. 1.8 million seems like a big number but it’s less than 5,000 a day and...

Any developer that has been actively involved in the Edmonton market since 1979 can hardly be described as a joke. If they took the kind of advice freely given here (and worth what was paid for it), they would probably have gone bankrupt in 1982 (or 1992 or 2002 or 2012 or 2022)...

Do you mean “in general” or “in Edmonton”?

I must confess to watching the second half of yesterday’s game in Ottawa as the Elks maintained there perfect record on the drain so far. Disappointed? On reflection I would have to say no. You have to have expectations in order to be disappointed. I was never a big Chris Jones fan and won’t...

Sooo… Also in the news today it’s being reported that “the size of Canada's public service has ballooned by 42 per cent since the 2015 election of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, while Canada's population increased by around 14 per cent.” “In a report from earlier this year on the federal...

Sooo... My favourite headline tag line of the day, sadly likely destined to be one of my favourites of all time: "Is the girl-boss era coming to an ignoble end?" "The Liberals are never held accountable for the female sacrificial lambs they send out for slaughter to save the position of a...

^ In many ways we’ve come a long way in the last 10 years, most of them for the better.

When you look at the amount of vacant, developable, and affordable land in and around downtown Edmonton, Vancouver’s Downtown East Side isn’ta really good comparable except for people who like to excuse things by saying “well, it could be worse”…

It’s hard to have parades when you don’t have any streets capable of holding a parade…

Now, now…. everyone here is just implementing the same landscape “naturalization” policy the city is pioneering for their own public spaces. :(

To be fair, their record last year was 44 - 27 - 11 for 99 points and third in the division (tied for 7th in the conference and tied for 10th in the league) which surely has to be considered competitive. Noting of course that "competitive" doesn't necessarily translate to "winning" once the...