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The city explains the significance of the name on its ward names page: "O-day'min, the strawberry, or heart berry, represents the heart...

I don't mind its new name and will gladly use that name, although because of the explanation of the meaning of the name the first thing...

I updated the thread name because a city landscape architect used it in a post on LinkedIn - I know there was a naming committee vote a...

Am I misreading this?? This makes zero sense: "How can you call me out for NOT developing vacant unsightly land when you ARE developing...

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/downtown-developer-targeted-citys-problem-property

At least we can be very thankful that nobody was able to move forward with the potential plan at one point to tear down the Hotel...

Describes Edmonton as a whole perfectly. Ugly on the outside as you’re driving in, but once you get past the inner ring road it’s quite...

I realize being downtown there are only so many places to build bigger, newer things as the city grows. I can sort of live with some...

The one I find hardest to cope with is the post office The commemorative clock only reminds me of what they did.

Probably not coincidentally, that is a common Edmonton style theme - ugly on the outside but nice on the inside. Not sure why we often...

In hindsight, the library built in the 60's was also actually nicer architecturally than the metal blob there now. Aren't things...

I wonder if the chief librarian had ever travelled to Europe and scoffed at all the "aging anachronisms" they managed to keep there.

It's funny to read what people thought at the time. From Dane Ryksen:

But just think if they had not demolished the Carnegie Library we would have never gotten that gem of a building we now have on...

If we are cursed for anything, it's allowing the last Carnegie Library ever built to be demolished...