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Is this really going to be Alberta’s “Best Summer Ever,” as Premier Jason Kenney promised on April 1?
“If we just stick to our guns for a few more weeks we’ll head into what I truly believe will be the best summer in Alberta history,” Kenney said. It’s a good line, bold and memorable. It’s become something of a slogan for the United Conservatives. But the statement could very easily come back to bite Kenney hard.
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EDMONTON The Edmonton Folk Music Festival cancelled its 2021 festival at Gallagher Park for the second year in a row. Set to take place in August, Edmonton Folk Fest cancelled the event on Monday citing safety concerns with the ongoing pandemic. With so many variables at play, the complexity of planning and delivering a festival of this size makes it impossible to move forward in our usual manner, a release read. Without full vaccination, we won’t be fully safe from the spread of the virus. With virus variants and vaccine rollout still uncertain, the impossibility of social distancing at our event could lead to community spread.
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EDMONTON It s still five months away but the producer of one of Edmonton s most beloved summer festivals doesn’t believe Edmonton Folk Fest will go ahead this year. Terry Wickham said a final decision won t be made until early April, however, he s not optimistic. I just can t see 25,000 people gathering in August. Not with the slower rollout here, with the vaccines, and variants, etc., etc., he told CTV News Edmonton. Wickham said organizing something, then having to pull the brake on it, could bankrupt the festival. He believes it has to be fully safe or not. Last year, August was you know 250, you can have a gathering of 250, so if some things like that are available, we ll take advantage of it. But again, it would have to be very safe he said. But I feel the governments are going to hold back, just with these variants and they ve put so much money, so much effort into this that, you know, why blow it at the last minute?