You See (a) Pea Sized Budget Adjustment

Three little pigs - municipal, provincial and federal - build some fiscal houses and big bad Twitter blows them all down.

Meanwhile, Michael Walters spends the week running for mayor.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Peter Ohm

• Tweet from @e_backstrom

Photo Radar

• More visible look for photo radar enforcement vehicles in Edmonton

Christmas Trees

• Edmonton business feels ripple effect of Christmas tree shortage

The Hamilton of it all

• Sarah Hamilton: A Changing Transit Landscape
• Sept. 21, 2017: David Staples: West Edmonton wants mass transit, but maybe not LRT

2020 Budget

• Council Roundup: November 29, 2019
• $28M needed to keep tax increase at 2.6 per cent, Edmonton report says

Kaycee Madu

• Madu cautions Edmonton council ahead of budget deliberations
• Tweet from @MichaelWalters
• Tweet from @AndrewKnack

Walters asks the question

• City of Edmonton must defend its oversized staff: councillor
• Tweet from @MichaelWalters
• Medicine Hat church 'happy to pay' carbon tax bill after UCP candidate wrongly claimed cost would be $50,000

High Level Line

• Councillors endorse $85K funding to keep High Level Line linear park dream alive
• Privately-funded river valley gondola is viable, company says in Rossdale Power Plant station reveal

Climate Change

• City accelerating action on 16 climate change initiatives, others face uncertainty under funding restraints

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