Butternut Delay Speed Reductions Further

Troy spends a full day yelling at council about speed limit and he's got the deets on everything to do with council's plan to reduce speed limits. Meanwhile, Mack and Troy's honeymoon period with Elise Stolte's articles appears to be waning as they provide some hot takes on both columns this week.

Show Notes

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Provincial Election

• Alberta’s 2019 election underway as Premier Notley drops the writ

Hockey Success

• Edmonton Oil Kings secure Central Division title

Killer Coyotes

• Coyotes behind cat killings in Edmonton area, U of A study concludes

Patronage

• Elise Stolte: Time to raise the bar and ban patronage in city councillors' offices

Speed Limits

• Elise Stolte: I want more than speed traps; new cultural approach needed for residential speeding
• City councillors recommend blanket 40 km/h speed limit on residential roads after pleas from road safety advocates
• Jon Dziadyk
• How to stop discounting pedestrian deaths

Journalism Funding

• Jesse Brown's Twitter thread
• What the federal budget offers Canada’s struggling journalism industry

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