Edmonton Notes for 7/25/2009

Here are my weekly Edmonton notes:

• It’s Indy weekend here in Edmonton, and you can hear the cars pretty far away from the City Centre Airport. It’s also the final weekend for Capital EX.
• At long last, the province of Alberta decided to put some funding behind our bid for EXPO 2017. Very good news.
• Council voted this week to expand the number of wards from six to twelve. I’ve got some links and data here.
• The Edmonton & Northern Alberta District Historical Festival started yesterday and runs until August 2nd.
• You can see the latest Next Gen weekly newsletter here. If you haven’t already, consider subscribing, it’s well worth it.
• The City’s IT department was in the news twice this week: once for apparently divorcing Microsoft, and again today for starting to move forward with making open data available.
• Apparently the Shaw Conference Centre needs to expand, but there probably isn’t space at its current location.
• The next Movies on the Square night is happening July 31st!
• Sadly, there has been an increase in the number of street children looking for a place to sleep – the Youth Emergency Shelter has been full nearly every night.
• The Citizen Panel finally presented it’s report to City Council this week.
• I like the idea of more murals around the city!
• Maybe it’s because I know nothing about basketball, but I really dislike the name of the tournament coming up in Churchill Square: Who’s Got Next?
• The City of Edmonton’s new calendar site went live this week! It has RSS and iCal feeds, finally. Check it out.