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City councillor Michael Janz wants a mansions tax in Edmonton. City council will be looking at options for progressive taxation this fall.

Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi wants to use $5 million from the province on a new day shelter & patrol teams of social workers and police.

A piece of Edmonton’s warehouse history will be preserved as developers get ready to build a 40- to 45-storey tower in the middle of the 111-year-old building, city council heard Wednesday.

New construction and rising property values in Edmonton last year will add $8.2 million more than expected to city coffers.

Edmonton city councillors took a big step Monday in the movement to decriminalize illegal drug possession, an attempt to "reduce drug poisoning injuries and deaths."

Edmontonians using city facilities such as recreation centres will not have to wear masks, but transit users do, city council said Tuesday.

Sohi said the former staffer in question, in the end, did not financially benefit from their misdeeds and their contract was cancelled

Edmontonians will not have to start masking up in more places after a new bylaw failed at city hall on Tuesday. By a vote of 8-5, councillors decided not to make masking mandatory in city-owned and operated facilities like city hall and rec centres.

Earlier Tuesday, Alberta’s provincial government tabled a bill that, if put into effect, would undermine Edmonton’s ability to create a masking bylaw without…

Reversing course from its January vote, council opted to expand the pilot beyond the 47 picnic sites in river valley parks last year.