Episode Details

This week, council wraps for the summer, but not before kicking the can on their code of conduct. Plus, it's easier to eat food from a truck and harder to get bear spray from a store.

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

Code of conduct

• 'Transparency is very, very important': Council rejects code of conduct updates
• Proposed bylaw would keep misdeeds by Edmonton city councillors secret

Centennial Plaza

• News Release: New Centennial Plaza to add colour and vibrancy in the heart of downtown

Vision Zero

• Boy, 3, dies in crosswalk after being hit by truck in southwest Edmonton
• Police investigating fatal pedestrian collision in southwest Edmonton
• GoFundMe for Edmonton boy killed after pickup truck hits family
• Police sound alarm after deadly month on Edmonton roads

Food trucks

• PSA: City streamlines permitting for mobile food vendors
• 2012: The Past, Present, and Future of Food Truck Bylaws & Guidelines in Edmonton

Bear spray

• Edmonton bear spray bylaw aims to curb misuse with new point-of-sale measures
• Edmonton changes bylaw to regulate bear spray sales after rise in assaults
• Bear-spray incidents on the rise in Edmonton

From the Taproot newsroom

• Edmonton Opera innovates and collaborates to keep costs low
• Applied Pharma facility could open local doors while bridging national gap
• Group brings co-op model to downtown investment to build change
• Taproot Edmonton roundups

Rapid fire

• Legal Aid Alberta says province terminated its contract

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