Five Hundred Eighty Six Thousand Three Hundred Dollars (how do you measure an election loss)

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Public washrooms

• News Release: New mobile washrooms being installed; transit washroom reopening takes a phased approach
• Edmonton reopening 10 LRT washrooms, adding 12 mobile locations

Empathetic Albertans

• Mental health study shows Albertans feeling less empathetic towards others than at start of pandemic

Campaign finance

• 2010-2021 Campaign Disclosures Statements
• Michael Oshry spent more than $220K of own money for his Edmonton mayoral campaign

Warehouse Park

• Warehouse Park | City of Edmonton
• PSA: Transforming parking lots into paradise
• Warehouse Park: Designing a safe urban oasis in downtown Edmonton

Summer Streets

• PSA: Summer Streets give everyone room to walk, run, bike and roll

Snow clearing

• Edmonton city councillors agree snow removal budget needs boost
• News Release: City of Edmonton honoured by American Planning Association for innovative work in carbon budgeting

High Level Bridge

• Council weighs options to renew or replace Edmonton's 109-year-old High Level Bridge
• Edmonton historic board urges city keep heritage in mind as older buildings demolished

Encampments

• Number of homeless people in Edmonton expected to grow, city report says
• Surge in Edmonton's homeless camps likely this summer but staff don't recommend city-run encampment

Infill

• Edmonton reaches goal to have infill units make up 25% of new homes
• Affordability needs to be built into Edmonton's plans to boost density with infill development: expert
• Edmonton's omnibus zoning bylaw would change entire city and limit development rules

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