Mini-stories east of downtown

Guests Sharon Yeo, David Holdsworth, and Hon Leong join to give insight into some of the infrastructure, cultural, and systemic reasons why Chinatown is facing the problems it is today.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Squirrel photo

• Edmonton newspaper's tweet of squirrels "hugging" has grabbed people's attention

McFee's salary

• Edmonton police chief's salary made public

Funding formula

• Councillors' actions on police funding differ from candidates' words
• Edmonton city council settles on $407M annual base funding for police

Guest: Sharon Yeo

• @sharonyeo
• 2017: Introducing: Edmonton Chinatown Walking Tours

Guest: David Holdsworth

• LinkedIn
• 2019: City considers building a replica gate for Edmonton's Chinatown

Guest: Hon Leong

• Chinatown Transformation Collaborative Society

Chinatown

• 2022 Chinatown Projects & Support
• 2017: Chinatown Strategy
• Keith Gerein: Edmonton's Chinatown looks to take control, even if that means moving
• Edmontonians join national effort to rebuild Chinatowns across Canada
• Pandemic leaves Edmonton's Chinatown just trying to hang on

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