Edmonton Notes for 5/30/2009 at MasterMaq's Blog

Edmonton Notes for 5/30/2009

By Mack D. Male | May 30, 2009 at 10:07 pm

Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:

I think everyone was surprised by Calgary’s last-minute bid for EXPO 2017. Mayor Mandel said, “we’re not interested in an Edmonton-Calgary bid”, putting to rest (for now) any notion that the two cities might work together.

Pretty big news in sports this week: the Oilers named Pat Quinn head coach, and Tom Renney associate coach.

The late spring/early summer radio ratings have been released – you can read all the details here.

The City’s newest poet laureate is Roland Pemberton, also known as Cadence Weapon. You can read his story on Edmonton Stories here.

You can read the latest Next Gen Weekly Newsletter online here.

CBC recently announced another round of job cuts – 16 in Edmonton were affected.

A new Farmers’ Market started this week at the Alberta Avenue community centre. Sharon wrote about it here.

The City has setup a new non-profit called Fort Edmonton Management Company to operate Fort Edmonton Park.

So far 66 people have signed up to attend BarCamp Edmonton 2, which is coming up on June 13th. Don’t miss it!

Nine of the City of Edmonton’s branches have achieved ISO 14001 certification, the world’s most rigorous environmental management system standard.

Some political news – the province is looking to impose new rules on municipal campaign finances, something Mayor Mandel was none too pleased about. Councillor Don Iveson wrote a good post about it here.

Speaking of Councillor Iveson – happy birthday! And congratulations to both Don and his wife Sarah on welcoming Dexter into the world.