All Episodes
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Will developers produce parking without minimums?
Iveson's State of the City address was this week and we've got the Cliff's notes. Meanwhile City Council peeks over the edge of the Precipice of regulating parking and...
A whole garden of speed reduction PLANts
Springtime has a whole bunch of plans for speed reduction popping up through the frost. We talk about all the bad ones, and Troy's. Plus a couple downtown towers try t...
We're not trying to Drupe you but we might get a Core zone
Troy's uncharacteristically happy after seeing a political success and back gives an update about a rave in an abandoned powerplant for SingularityU. Meanwhile Mike Ni...
The Orange Dot
We're living in Kenney's Alberta, and we'd be remiss if we didn't talk about the massive change of government. Mack and Troy show the echoes of the past in the electio...
Updating the zoning Arugulations
Mack and Troy are joined by Anne Stevenson, a senior planner at the City of Edmonton to talk about the plan to updating the city's zoning regulation, last updated in 2...
A political rising starfruit
An article published about Sarah Hamilton that called her "Edmonton's political rising star" left us star-struck... or just confused. Plus, we have election coverage, ...
The Sage Wisdom of LRT Operations
Special guest Don Iveson makes an appearance on this episode to discuss transit fare policy. Mack and Troy also dig into the city's TLC 4 LRT plan which can be essenti...
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 ...
So Longan to the market on 104 street
City market announces their move out of the downtown core into the definitely-developed Quarters. Meanwhile, the specter of residential speed limits continues to haunt...
Limiting Liquor-ice Separation Distances
Mack and Troy are joined by special guest Mel Priestley to discuss everything you wanted to know about liquor store separation distances and more. Plus, we'll have an ...
Ripe or not, here I kumquat
Council has to deal with an upcoming return of the Mayfair issue and grapple with the question of how many downtown towers is too many, neither of which they really wa...
Brian Mason has beef that cud lead to the end of milking the cash cow
Transportation Minister Brian Mason attempts to put the cash cow out to pasture, Tony Caterina is the latest councillor with questionable ward expenses and the popo na...
CocOH NO! Another Train Delay
It's the valentine's day episode! We talk about trains, love, and councillors asking really, really bad questions at council meetings. Also city employees speeding ...
Excuse me while I fennel my ward money into an MBA
A city councillor took some heat for some questionable usage of his ward funds - but that's the only thing about Edmonton that was hot. We talk about LRT stations as r...
Squashing requests for data
The city is squashing requests for data. There's a walkway that strolled straight through the city's bureaucracy, and requests for information come to a head at city h...
Re-lease the Greens
Mack and Troy are joined by guest Michael Janz to talk about the Mayfair golf course lease. Council also gets a brief update about calcium chloride and LRT alignments.
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
JeoPEARdy
Troy and Mack are joined by Elise Stolte and Chris Chang-Yen Phillips for the first game of Edmonton Jeopardy!
Council poinsettias the budget at a 2.6% increase
Council passed the budget on the last day they had to do so - we'll give you the highlights and hot city council gossip. You'll also get an overview of Iveson's end of...
Veggies, get to the CHOPPA
The budget is well underway and motions were made... and quickly unmade. As well, the police is getting more money, but LESS more money. We also touch on transit stati...
Some people still aPeachiate city services
Mack's out of the office, so Troy and Kirsten Goa talk about parking revenue, budget discussions, child-friendliness and ill-advised tweeting from a National Post repo...
Streisand's Favourite fruit was a SLAPPle
This week a sitting city councillor will stay that way after he lost the UCP nomination in Edmonton-South. He might struggle to get back up to city hall because of all...
We might Guava problem with following through on our priorities
Council chambers are full of people exercising their democratic right and speaking to council; Troy breaks down why that's stupid and why they shouldn't. And meanwhile...
Looking at Olive the competing priorities
This week it's all about the budget. We'll tell you all about the items competing for your dollars and where we're finding "savings". As well we'll update you on th...
Time for Knecht to Peas Out
The chief of police is out, so we'll have an interim chief during the budget discussions. Mack and Troy question the lack of questions asked about our police budget, a...
No Raisin to go forward with the innovation hub
There's no reason to go forward with the innovation hub. It's dead. Forever. Happy Halloween. Don Iveson also gets fed up with lack of provincial funding for munici...
The Juicy New Melonnovation Hub
In this episode we talk with Eliza Barlow and Therese Kehler, the writer and editor of Taproot Edmonton's newest story on EEDC's lease on the 103st building that they ...
Oregano Transit For You
Lots of transit this week! In the last election "BRT" was the dogwhistle word candidates use to say "I hate transit"; we'll help you learn about the new words councill...
Lettuce on the bus for free
Free transit is on the table after Councillor Paquette issued a notice of motion to examine what free transit might look like in our city. We have an update on Terwili...
Terrawillegar Drive
Traffic on your roadway? Just embiggen it to enquicken all the cars. Or something. This week council was off so we took a deep dive into Terwillager Drive, and some...