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The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was created as a statutory holiday to honour survivors, their families, and communities while ensuring the legacy of residential schools is recognized. Although a number of events were held across the city yesterday to commemorate the fourth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Edmonton-West Henday MLA Brooks Arcand-Paul says there's still much work to do towards healing and moving forward.

Brooks Arcand-Paul went on to say that "events like this help us get together and help non-Indigenous people show their support with Indigenous communities, but we're not seeing the support in the places that matter and governments aren't doing anything about it."

Sometime this afternoon the new party leader of the Alberta NDP will be officially announced and with that announcement will come the end of Rachel Notley's role as leader of the Alberta NDP. Rachel Notley has been in provincial politics since 2006 when she campaigned to succeed retiring Edmonton-Strathcona MLA Raj Pannu and she won the seat in 2008. In 2014 she was elected as leader of the Alberta NDP, which she will remain until later today.

No matter your party/unparty affiliations or leanings 22 years in politics is a long, long time. She has served her constituency, her party, Alberta and Canada and well be remembered for that. She states that Federal politics is out of the picture and doing nothing is probably out of the picture too, whatever future endeavours she chooses to give herself to remains to be seen.

Best wishes Rachel Notley!

Technology North Digital Services (TNDS), an Edmonton tech company has become a local and national success story that has digitized documents more than a million documents for a variety of customers. Beyond that they also employ people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and with work that helps them achieve long-term career goals.

Estimates have come in for what it might cost the city to set up three homeless encampments. It is projected that it would cost $2.1 million to run three small-scale encampment sites for about 60 people from the beginning of August through to the end of October. The financial costs are one things but city staff outlined a number of costs other than financial.

Coun. Anne Stevenson who put forward the original motion commented that "to invest that amount of money for three months for what is in any measure not a preferred solution or outcome doesn't seem to make a lot of sense and is not a wise investment",

#Edmonton, #pilothomelessproject, #tooexpensive

Construction on the first of five supportive housing units is complete and will be occupied soon. This complex has 30 1 bedroom and studio units and will include staff like counsellors, addictions workers and other health-care professionals.

The remaining four supportive housing located in Inglewood, Westmount, McArthur and Terrace Heights and are scheduled to be completed the next couple of months. The five projects will provide a total of 210 new homes to Edmontonians who have experienced homelessness. According to Mayor Sohi these homes will provide residents with warm, safe accomodations as well as physical, mental, spiritual and emotional health and wellness,

#Edmonton, #supportivehousingprject

Its well known that the Pope is coming to Canada July 24-29  as part of his pilgrimage of healing, reconciliation and hope. The Pope will arrive in Edmonton July 24th and on July 25th will travel to the Ermineskin Indian Residential School in the community of Maskwacis south of the city. Then on July 26, Pope Francis will attend an open mass at Commonwealth Stadium which can hold about 65,000 people.

Attendance at the mass if free but tickets can only be accessed through the papal website, which will provide a direct link to the Ticketmaster at 10:30 a.m. MST on Wednesday, July 6. 

#Pope, #Edmonton, #Commonwealthstadium

July is typically thought of as the beginning of "vacation". Schools out for the summer and students are looking for ways to fill their days. Parents often take their "vacation" to coincide with their childrens' and workers often take their "vacation times" in the summer. The days are long and warm, sometimes hot and lend themselves to many kinds of outside activities.

Because of rising gas prices and inflation many people have decided to stay close to home and make this summer a "staycation". If your amongst those who will be in Edmonton during July and wondering what you can do below the links below will give you a good start. There may be some repetition but as the old saying says "repetition is the mother of retention".

Go through the lists, get out to some events, see the city and have some fun in the sun!

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25 AWESOME Things to Do in Edmonton in 2022

48 of the best things to do in and around Edmonton this July

#thingstodo, #July, #Edmonton

Remuneration for many, if not most people is tied into an evaluation of how well they have done and what they have accomplished with what they are responsible for. Whether or not the stats bear it is questionable whether crime in its many forms has decreased and do people feel safer in Edmonton. Being police chief of a growing city like Edmonton in difficult times can't be easy but there should be defined and realistic expectations that their remuneration is based on.

#edmonton, #policechief, #salary

• On Monday, at 9:30 am, there will be a Community and Public Services Committee meeting. On the agenda are several community safety initiatives as well as the Recreation Centre Master Plan. The Committee will also discuss an annual update from the Edmonton Arts Council. The Agenda Review Committee will meet at 9:00 am on Tuesday - usually these meetings only last 30 minutes.
• On Wednesday, there will be an Executive Committee meeting from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm to consider the Police Service Funding Formula Policy, as well as a safe streets initiative. Finally, the Committee will consider whether to designate Hangar 11 as a Municipal Historic Resource. At 12:15 pm, there will be a meeting of the Audit Committee which will have an in camera discussion about the Committee itself.
• While the rest of us are getting ready for May long weekend camping, on Friday, the Utility Committee will meet from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm to discuss a report from Epcor on Edmonton’s changing water use. Overall, the use per account has declined markedly. Annual water consumption is now equivalent to what it was in the 1970s, while Edmonton contains roughly half a million more people now. 

#Edmonton, #Committee,

Last month the pope apologized for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools in Canada. In the wake of that apology and and to further healing and reconciliation it has just been announced that the pope will visit Edmonton, Quebec City, Iqaluit in July.

#pope, #Edmonton,#residentialschools,#healing, #reconciliation