EDMONTON --
For the third time in as many tries, Edmonton city councillor Mike Nickel escaped sanction by his colleagues at City Hall on Monday.
The motion to censure Nickel, put forward by Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson, failed to receive the two-thirds majority vote needed to sanction the Ward 11 councillor.
The 8-3 vote in favour of censure came after councillors heard from the city's integrity commissioner that Nickel had breached their Code of Conduct when he published derogatory social media posts about Coun. Andrew Knack in April.
If the motion to censure had passed, Nickel would have been reprimanded publicly on record by city council.