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One Year In: What’s Happening With Edmonton’s New Zoning Bylaw?
It’s been a full year since Edmonton’s new Zoning Bylaw (Bylaw 20001) came into effect in October 2023 — and with that time has come...
jason83601
12 hours ago6 min read
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The Numbers Don’t Lie: Downtown Takes More Than It Gives
Earlier this week, City Council's Urban Planning Committee discussed a perceived need for more Downtown spending. At its core, the...
jason83601
May 155 min read
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It's Not Easy Being Green…Or Is It?
This City Council has set ambitious targets for its climate plan. However, when it comes to delivering, they continue to fall short. The...
hebaamire10
May 95 min read
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Affordable Housing Audit
Recently, City Council's Audit Committee discussed a few audits that were conducted. While reading these audits and watching the meeting,...
hebaamire10
May 14 min read
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Capacity Building
In this third and final part of this blog series on my guiding principles, I will elaborate on Capacity Building. I know it sounds like...
hebaamire10
Apr 242 min read
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Monitor and Measure
In part 2 of my blog series on my guiding principles, I want to elaborate on “Monitor and Measure”. What does this mean and how does it...
hebaamire10
Apr 173 min read
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Enabling Opportunity
If you’ve been following my campaign thus far, you likely have noticed that my website has been updated. One of the changes we made was...
hebaamire10
Apr 103 min read
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Paycheck or Performance? Rethinking City Council Compensation
Higher Taxes with Pay Raises Every January, Council members get a raise. We hear public disapproval that Council is giving themselves...
jason83601
Mar 263 min read
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To Party or Not to Party? That is The Question.
For the People, Not the Party Bill 20 and the ability to form political parties is the talk of the town when it comes to the imminent...
jason83601
Mar 263 min read
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The Future of Zoning Bylaws
It’s no secret I’ve been out knocking on a lot of doors. Every time I get a call asking about my campaign, or I go to an event, it’s the...
jason83601
Mar 268 min read
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Edmonton Claims to Be Business-Friendly—But Is It Really? Here’s the Truth.
Jason BALE for Ward Karhiio The City of Edmonton likes to claim they are business-friendly, but are they really? I do not believe so and...
jason83601
Mar 264 min read
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Stranger Than Fiction - I Wish I Was Making This up!
How lucky are we to have a City Council that continues to raise our taxes to pay a bunch of bureaucrats to provide the rules we really need?
jason83601
Mar 264 min read
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Minding the City’s own Business
Concept Drawing of the Blatchford Development In a previous blog about business, I talked about reviewing what barriers exist to starting...
jason83601
Mar 265 min read
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