COPS

The Edmonton Police Service faces blowback for its handling of convoy protests and counter-protestors, and also deals with the unintentional declassification of its super-secret confidential plane.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Calgary Zoo

• Calgary Zoo asks visitors to keep masking to protect pregnant gorilla

Climate quilt

• A stitch in time: University student maps Edmonton's changing climate — on a quilt

Mountain trails

• 90 per cent of Edmonton trails could be closed to mountain bikers

Commission size

• Council looks to make police commission bigger amid calls for better oversight

Vaccine passport

• Edmonton council opts to not create city-run vaccine passport program
• Mack's tweet thread
• Andrew Knack's tweet
• Amarjeet Sohi's tweet

Noise injunction

• Temporary court injunction addresses nuisance noise
• Mack's tweet
• Injunction notice in PDF

Last Saturday

• Small group of pedestrians, cyclists bring convoy to a standstill in Edmonton's river valley
• Troy's tweet
• Mack's tweet about asking questions
• Mack's tweet about police communications

Police response

• Amarjeet Sohi's tweet about meeting with EPS/EPC
• Op-ed from EPC chair John McDougall: Edmonton police have a duty to keep protests safe
• Edmonton police chief calls for calm; defends response to truck protests, counter-protests

Guest: Michelle Peters-Jones

• @michpetersjones

Commission meeting

• Mack's tweet thread of the meeting
• Mack's tweets about the budget
• Troy's tweets about councillor silence
• Police commission hears Edmontonians' concerns over ongoing convoy protests
• Edmonton police readying for another anti-restriction protest this weekend

Secret airplane

• Edmonton Police have a secret plane and they're getting another
• Edmonton police replace plane operating 'covertly' for three decades
• Edmonton police to replace 'confidential' plane for $4.3 million
• Edmonton police insist airplane is not secret — it's just not publicized

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