A New Season

It's a new season and Mack and Troy bring you a healthy dose of experimentation, and update you on bike share, suicide barriers and Whyte towers

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Oilers Skills

• JONES: Connor McDavid too sick to display skills with Edmonton Oilers

LRT Service

• Planned system-wide LRT closure Sunday, January 27

Hyatt Hotel

• Hyatt brand returns to Edmonton's downtown with new hotel

Calcium Chloride

• Edmonton councillors to debate snow-removal program after Global News investigation
• Newly uncovered City of Edmonton memo raises questions about impacts of calcium chloride

Bike Share

• Council Roundup: January 11, 2019

Old Strathcona Towers

• 3 tall towers proposed for Edmonton's historic Old Strathcona

Suicide Barriers

• Suicide barriers not curbing crisis calls to High Level Bridge, say Edmonton police

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