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Municipal Politics

Airboy said:
There has been pushes in the past to raise awareness. But mots media and people in general don't want to know. Every chance I get I mention that Edmonton's Population is similar to Calgary's but Edmonton's Metro region is made up of about 22 communities so the area is larger. I also try to throw in little tid bits like Alberta oldest and Largest university is here. Or that Edmonton Had Canadas first Mosque. But I gets me that we as individuals have to do so much of the heavy lifting.
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my view is that we should be taking a page out of the provincial government's book, and advertising the city.

It would be fun if we could do that using "fun facts" like "Edmonton is the 5th largest urban centre in Canada" or "We have the highest ranked and largest university in the Prairies" and these things...

I always try to educate people on Edmonton whenever I can, but it is ridiculous that we need to do that even to other Canadians... It's less terrible in Western Canada, but sheesh, you go anywhere past Winnipeg, to the East, and people think of us as an exotic small city that is really cold and has a kinda good hockey team.
 
At some point the child will grow so big that their clothes will obviously not fit. When Edmonton hits 2m population (potentially just 10-12 years away) I wonder if people will continue to think of the city as having 250,000 people. Kind of comical really if only because it is so far from reality, and often expounded by "educated" types. Like something out of a monty python skit.
 
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occidentalcapital said:
At some point the child will grow so big that their clothes will obviously not fit. When Edmonton hits 2m population (potentially just 10-12 years away) I wonder if people will continue to think of the city as having 250,000 people. Kind of comical really if only because it is so far from reality, and often expounded by "educated" types. Like something out of a monty python skit.
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One hopes, but I am not that optimistic. I recall when we passed 1 million something similar was said.

I blame the media (particularly eastern Canadian) a lot, although not entirely. These days they are not very rigorous and sometimes downright lazy. With all the cut backs they are not that rigorous with facts and providing information beyond something very basic to a story. They tend to go to the same sources and focus on the same places and we are not one of them. Although, it tends to be more of neglect and ignorance than misinformation.
 
All of the news nationwide comes out of Calgary so it is little wonder most Canadians think little of us if at all.
 
Nope, but if it was just the Board Members of YEG and the EMRB invited then it would make sense - a meeting versus a 'photo-op' or 'announcement'.
 
Kosy123 said:
www.ashleysalvador.com

Unpermitted Parking Lots Shouldn't Get a Free Pass

This week, Edmonton’s Urban Planning Committee will discuss a report in response to a motion I made regarding unpermitted surface parking lots in the core. The report shows that 89% of surface parking lots in Downtown are operating without permits.
www.ashleysalvador.com www.ashleysalvador.com

Ashley Salvador seems to be making some more noise over this, so who knows if that gets a push towards more action on this issue.
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If Ashley gets this done wonderfully then she automatically gets my vote for Mayor of Edmonton!
 
Gronk! said:
If Ashley gets this done wonderfully then she automatically gets my vote for Mayor of Edmonton!
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I've been pretty impressed with her so far and how much she's sticking to an urbanist lens on things. I still think she has a term or two more as a councilor but based on what I'm seeing from Sohi and just general vibes of how politicking goes (and from some anecdotal evidence/knowledge), I've got a decently strong feeling she's being set up as a successor to him for the future on the progressive camp of council.
 
Kosy123 said:
I've been pretty impressed with her so far and how much she's sticking to an urbanist lens on things. I still think she has a term or two more as a councilor but based on what I'm seeing from Sohi and just general vibes of how politicking goes (and from some anecdotal evidence/knowledge), I've got a decently strong feeling she's being set up as a successor to him for the future on the progressive camp of council.
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Cartmell will win if he runs is my guess. Hopefully Ashley can serve after.
 
thommyjo said:
Cartmell will win if he runs is my guess. Hopefully Ashley can serve after.
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I have some strong misgivings regarding Cartmell personally. It won't be the end of the world if he does end up winning a term (he's not Nickel), but again some strong personal misgivings.

But yes, Ashley has strong and good urbanist vibes and will have full support when she runs in the future.
 
Kosy123 said:
I have some strong misgivings regarding Cartmell personally. It won't be the end of the world if he does end up winning a term (he's not Nickel), but again some strong personal misgivings.

But yes, Ashley has strong and good urbanist vibes and will have full support when she runs in the future.
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Yeah. I think I feel mixed. He’s not a nickel/populist type guy. I think he’s smart, even though I don’t agree with him on everything (ex. West valley should be BRT in his view). And I think he balances others on council well. He’s likely a good diverse perspective with the right council, as long as it doesn’t all go conservative next time. And he might bring more of the business focus we need as a city, which especially for a term or two could be huge. Feels like a true “progressive conservative”, which is probably best to have engaged so the more far right wing people don’t get in. He gets the moderate conservative type support. We don’t want moderates feeling like it’s Janz or a far right person, cause they won’t go Janz.
 
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