Blog Posts

We are officially in the summer months in Edmonton! As we head into the warmer months, please join me for a conversation on June 17th regarding City Building.  In-Person / Virtual Townhall June 17th ...

When will enough be enough at Blatchford? I have been saying this since I first got elected to Council in 2017. Something has to change at Blatchford.  We all know the history. This was...

In my previous blog, I said that we need to take the City’s budget and organizational structure and tear it down to the studs. Taking a 20 year old budget and tweaking it here...

I take no joy in saying this, but the Spring budget adjustment is pretty much finalized, and it’s going to be really hard to swallow.  And I mean that. There are those that simply...

18 rolls of red tape? No thank you, Premier. Edmonton, like many other cities, has increasingly started to work directly with the federal government for various project and program funding. Not to intentionally bypass...

More bad news about the City’s budget last week. Council was told that to maintain current levels of service we need an 8.7% tax increase this year (in the fall we were told 6.6%)...