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Peter Ohm

• Tweet from @e_backstrom

Photo Radar

• More visible look for photo radar enforcement vehicles in Edmonton

Christmas Trees

• Edmonton business feels ripple effect of Christmas tree shortage

The Hamilton of it all

• Sarah Hamilton: A Changing Transit Landscape
• Sept. 21, 2017: David Staples: West Edmonton wants mass transit, but maybe not LRT

2020 Budget

• Council Roundup: November 29, 2019
• $28M needed to keep tax increase at 2.6 per cent, Edmonton report says

Kaycee Madu

• Madu cautions Edmonton council ahead of budget deliberations
• Tweet from @MichaelWalters
• Tweet from @AndrewKnack

Walters asks the question

• City of Edmonton must defend its oversized staff: councillor
• Tweet from @MichaelWalters
• Medicine Hat church 'happy to pay' carbon tax bill after UCP candidate wrongly claimed cost would be $50,000

High Level Line

• Councillors endorse $85K funding to keep High Level Line linear park dream alive
• Privately-funded river valley gondola is viable, company says in Rossdale Power Plant station reveal

Climate Change

• City accelerating action on 16 climate change initiatives, others face uncertainty under funding restraints

Speaking Municipally is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. This week we talked about A Tale of Two Weeklies, a new podcast series "that digs into the rise and fall of Edmonton’s SEE Magazine and Vue Weekly, two alt-weeklies engaged in a newspaper war that neither survived." We also highlighted The Well Endowed Podcast, a production of the Edmonton Community Foundation that explores "stories about donors, and what inspires their generosity."

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