Opinion

'I would strongly recommend council spend some time learning all that we gain from our partnerships with the Edmonton International Airport, Global Edmonton, and other partners before turning us into the person at the bar who enjoys all the food and drink, and then says they have to leave early before the bill comes!'

'We need to make some tough decisions. We need to get out of debt, not increase taxes and fix health care.'

'It might be just what Canadian unity needs.'

'The hiring of a new CAO allows council to hit the reset button, if it so wishes.'

'Give the kids something to do that they don't have to pay for, and I'm positive that property destruction would see a decrease.'

'I was born and raised in St. Albert, and it was St. Albert's pride that our snow trucks were the first ones out. Now they are non-existent.'

How is it that we have to slow traffic for work being done on a new road some distance from the existing roadway?

'Is there still a lack of transparency prevailing?'

'First, the amount to be levied will amount to 10 per cent of our tax bill. Secondly this is a nine-per-cent tax increase despite a recent 62-per-cent drop in ridership from 1.02 million to 390,000.'

'This year I learned the effects of a heat wave, temperatures up to 38 C and probably higher on the west wall of my house where I grow many of my tomatoes.'