#yeg
Is it just me or does the Edmonton Downtown business association's "DT" logo kind of look like a toilet when it's displayed small, in blue and white, as their website favicon? 
@ned This is Redlining. A racist, segregation practice that was observed in both Canada and the US.
I think the practice was much more well documented in the US mainly because the practice was highlighted in an obtuse fashion with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. A black child was denied enrolment to a school that was closer to her home because it was a school in a white neighbourhood and was effectively a white school. So the public school system enrolled the child to a black school much farther away.
This triggered a constitutional challenge against what was a practice of segregation. What this revealed was a wide spread, systematic practice of banks, realtors, and other service providers that effectively pinned people by race and forced them to live in specific neighbourhoods. But, like many things systemically broken about the US, the Supreme Court simply acknowledged the issue without providing any meaningful solution.
Safe to say that the practice continues in various forms on both sides of the border into the modern day.
#Yeg #Edmonton #Yyc #Calgary
#AbLeg #AbPoli #CdnPoli
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
Somehing my neighbors in Edmonton need to hear...
"I was today days old when I learned that a major use of restrictive covenants in Calgary (and elsewhere) was maintaining “community character” by prohibiting specific races from buying in a neighborhood and I feel naive but also why is this not part of the news stories?"
"Thoughts: 1. Restricting how your land can be used will hurt your land value down the line. 2. You want to fight homes for more people in a housing crisis? 3. Remember what restrictive covenants were originally for (racism)"
update: confirmed - i first heard it at a goth club called New City Suburbs in #yeg ~2002. my best friend put a copy of it on his minidisc player, and made a copy for me. the last time i heard it was on a sony bianca minidisc in 2005, which i lost.
i have a really weird request for industrial musicophiles: i am beyond excited that i rediscovered a track that i've been missing from my music library for over 20 years.
the thing is, i can't figure out for the life of me where i first heard it. it was never once radio played here, nor is it something my friends were into. i can't seem to find any movies or tv series it was in.
was A Daisy Chain 4 Satan (Acid & Flowerz Mix) by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult ever played in some well known film, tv show, or compilation cd?
or was this literally something i stumbled on it an open kazaa/gnutella/bearshare C:\ drive in 1999, or my local goth industrial club when i was an alcoholic?
thanks for the help 
The John Janzen is temporarily closed, so I've been hosting their beehive in our backyard. The colony outgrew their living arrangement, so here’s a time-lapse of me moving them into their observation hive. #bees #beekeeping #beehive #urbanbeekeeping #urbanagriculture #yeg
Hey #YEG! In case you haven't noticed, it's actually a lovely (if cool) evening in Edmonton. Both the rain and the smoke have cleared out — and they did so soon enough that I got myself down to Taste of Edmonton for music & munchies.
Currently listening to 90s alt rock played by an energetic band of young men who might not have been alive when these songs came out. That's kind of breaking my 90s-kids brain, but they're very good!
So was the veggie fritter from the Indonesian satay stall. I think I'm leaning to cheese & guava empanada with the rest of my $10 worth of food tickets.
It continues to boggle my mind that there are those in the Oilers fan base who promote one of these young men as a “solution” to the perceived “goaltending problem.” Aside from his abilities as a goalie, his character is unworthy of wearing the Oilers jersey. Regardless of the verdict, and not until there is a rehabilitation process in place for players with “character issues.”
This is a men’s health issue, a social health issue, and a hockey issue.
#hockeytrial #menshealth #sex #letsgoOilers #Oilers #nhl #stanleycup #hockey #hnom #yeg #edmonton @hnom @hockey
The Pulse: July 21, 2025 - here's what you need to know about the Edmonton region today https://edmonton.taproot.news/pulse/2025/07/21 #yeg
robyn 
Hi hello I am back in #yeg and I already miss this
This was the slowest train on offer (a Regionalbahn - regional train) and I took four of them between three different towns & cities and every single one was on time down to the minute 
This was my first visit to K-days after more than a decade in Edmonton, so I did go early to look at the exhibits & other free shows.
The SuperDogs show was very cute & impressive. The horse riding sessions weren't really a show, just a couple horse walking in a circle, but there was a petting zoo with sheep & goats & such.
I kept on just missing the robot competition, but what brief bits I saw looked fun. I didn't try out the video games or really get into the other hands-on displays in the tech halls, most of which were kids-focused & I felt a little out of place as a solo adult. The "silly science" show that had caught my eye also turned out to be a hands-on session for kids, not a demonstration show (although the person leading it seemed really good). The "Maker Faire" was an eclectic mix of artisans & commercial vendors.
I hadn't budgeted for rides, and I'd seriously under-budgeted for food (very few options under $10). "Klondike Park" was empty when I wandered over just after the rain eased up.
back in 1993, the hostess/frito-lay chip company partnered with the skybox trading card company and put a postage stamp-sized trading card in every bag of hostess chips. this was a canada-exclusive promotion.
like the skybox basketball cards of the previous year, this was a massive thing for kids in canada. even if they weren't into TNG or DS9, they collected the cards for the sake of having something to trade with other kids on the school bus or during lunch hours.
after my box of trading cards was tossed out by accident ten years ago, i've slowly re-collected the contents of that box a little at a time
today, this collection of TNG/DS9 cards arrived in the mail. some of the sealed ones still have sour cream 'n onion chip crumbs stuck to them
anyone wanna trade TNG/DS9 minis with me? i need a new Odo, mine's thrashed 
I have an #Indigenous Mom who is fighting with all her might to have her child returned to her. Yes, she has work to do, but she has spent a lifetime in care.
Thus, she has little support or resources.
She needs a cell phone to communicate with her child. Does anybody have a used cell phone they can donate? #yeg
July 16, 1958 and it's Buck Nite Tonite at Vintage Edmonton:
"Between October 2022 and October 2023, 12.5 per cent of rental units in Canada saw a change of tenant. At the turnover from the old to the new tenant, landlords increased rents by an average of 24 per cent. In Vancouver, the average increase was 34 per cent; in Calgary, 20 per cent; in Toronto, 40 per cent; and in Halifax, 23 per cent. Similar increases happened the year before, and there is no reason to believe similar increases won’t happen next year. Rents are out of control across Canada—and have been for quite some time.
The negative impacts of exorbitant housing costs go beyond housing insecurity. High rents make it hard for businesses to attract and retain workers in certain cities. They also impact how much disposable income families spend on other goods and services. The impact of skyrocketing rents on the overall economy deserves more attention."
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/out-of-control-rents/
Our centralist and right-wing governments only ever talk about building houses. That does not address the housing crisis, which is cemented in a lack of affordability. Why are our tax dollars being put to subsidizing capital exploitation, instead of controlling and regulating the exploitation of our most basic human needs for greed and profit?
Even during our most desperate pandemic times, most of the government subsidies went to corporations to provide relief from paying wages and rent, and deferment went to mortgage holders instead of renters who needed it the most.
What we need is rent control, not more building and development. This is the job of the government, to regulate capitalists not to pay them more public funds.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/what-is-rent-control-anyway/
Don't get me wrong... I'm not against building houses. I just want people building houses to stop claiming that they're doing it to tackle the housing crisis or a manufactured housing shortage.
This kind of misdirection has fueled a lot of divisive politics in my local community, feeding off a strong misunderstanding of the difference between densification (for building a sustainable and inclusive city which can take on population growth without urban sprawl) and affordability of housing.
When we're talking about the housing and affordability crisis, we're talking about rent controls, government regulation, and ending exploitive practices like blind bidding.
Arguing over how many houses and what kind of houses that wealthy developers can build, is not in the same realm of discussion. We need less talk about building, and more talk about affordability.
July 15, 1939 and a 17 Year Old Takes Her First Train Ride at Vintage Edmonton:
despite all my better wisdoms, sometimes I love this province. usually when I am VERY far away from other people, which is telling.
I still remember reading, years ago now, a comment by someone online saying how there was “nothing in the river valley”. It really brought home how the general public sees wild space: literally as a space for humans to fill, as opposed to someone’s home, where we should be polite visitors.
The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is a recipe for abuse and exploitation. There were 21 other cases like this in 2024 alone… that were caught.
The kicker? Not one party is talking about labour rights.
Edmonton father and son charged with human trafficking of workers at rural businesses | Global Edmonton
https://globalnews.ca/news/11284122/edmonton-father-and-son-charged-human-trafficking/
Solar-powered ice cream shop in Edmonton | CityNews Edmonton
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/07/09/solar-powered-ice-cream-shop-edmonton/
