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Empty? – reader compares Castlewood and Carlton
Why do some communities take longer than others to fill out? That’s Joan Short’s experience from living in Castlewood and Carlton. According to City files, Carlton was approved in 1999 (compared to...
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What describes a suburb? “Cynical, conservative” says reader
I’ve been getting more reader feedback and here’s a letter from Mack Nugent, a fourth-year political science student at the University of Alberta. Mack includes many arguments I’ve heard against...
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Suburbs demonized while need to densify mature neighbourhoods ignored, says...
In response to political science student Mack Nugent’s email posted here yesterday, I got this note from University of Alberta law student Steven Dollansky (@StevenDollansky). He loves his new home in...
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Where do you eat a gelato? Density is not enough, we need integrated retail,...
The quality and diversity of emails I’ve been getting for this project is fantastic. Here’s another, this one from Tom Young, an urban planner working for a major consulting company in Edmonton, who...
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Readers weigh in on playground debate. Put parks into lot prices, says one
Would the city make stronger neighbourhoods if it build the playgrounds before people moved in so they had a place to meet their neighbours right from the beginning? Pat Zelenak was a paramedic for 19...
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Caernarvon. What? How do you even pronounce that?
How on earth do neighbourhoods got their names? Take Caernarvon, or Overlanders, for that matter – Meyonohk, Sakaw. What? How do you even pronounce Caernarvon? Apparently there’s a committee for that....
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Horse Hill farms not so eco-friendly, says home owner
Nitrogen from the farms pollutes the water and irrigation cuts into the river banks, says Amanda McIntyre, a Horse Hill resident who wrote in after the article about the fight to preserve northeast...
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What do you think of the city’s new bike lanes?
Some new bike lanes come with parking bans to give space for bikes on the side of the road. In other spots, the city has realigned curbs, or just painted lines on the road to indicate that space needs...
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Venting for Oct. 14, 2015: No offence, Oilers, but … please get some goals
It was nice to see the Oilers could go to the Blue Jays game on the fans’ money, rather than practising so maybe they could score at least one goal. Here we go again with the Oilers — they can rarely...
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Venting for Saturday, Oct. 17, 2015:
What’s bugging you? What makes you happy? Tell us about it. The Edmonton Oilers — a place where top draft picks go to die a slow, painful and very public death. I have a crazy idea, why not put some...
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Venting: Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015
What’s bugging you? What makes you happy? Tell us about it. To all the climate change deniers: 97 doctors say you have cancer, three say you don’t. I look forward to your refusing treatment and freeing...
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Venting: Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015
What’s bugging you? What makes you happy? Tell us about it. Advice for Ed Hervey: Take inventory and count the silver … those melon-headed bandits! So now that we’ve seen the real Chris Jones and...
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