Episode Details

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Jollibee

• You can now pay someone $15 per hour to wait in line at Edmonton's Jollibee

Lotto Max

• Man who picked same numbers for three decades claims $60-million lotto jackpot

Fringe Records

• Fringe Festival hits record-high attendance with 848,263 visitors

Waste Strategy

• New trash plan gets go ahead from Edmonton councillors
• Trash talk: City grappling with composting capacity concerns, private partnerships amidst waste strategy go-ahead

Open Streets

• Pedestrians take over Edmonton’s Jasper Avenue in Open Streets event

CLIMATE EMERGENCY

• Edmonton declares state of climate emergency, vows urgent action to reduce carbon emissions
• 'It's real': Edmonton city council declares climate emergency
• Michael Walters' Twitter thread

Little Duchess

• Duchess Bake Shop doubling its recipe with second location in Ritchie

Missing Middle

• YEG City Planning tweet
• IDEA: Change is coming to the Zoning Bylaw!

Tech Downtown

• Downtown at 'tipping point' in quest to become Edmonton's tech hub, report finds
• Accelerating Tech in Downtown Edmonton: Impacts and Opportunities
• Mack's Twitter thread
• Mack's other Twitter thread

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