Instead of worrying about overloaded systems, we should be celebrating the opportunity to make better use of the infrastructure our city has already built and paid for. That's not just good urban planning—it's good fiscal sense.

This dispels a lot of the misconceptions people have about infill development in the city. The complaints about sewage is something I hear a lot for the reason why we can't develop infill. I also wasn't aware of the population decline in the mature areas!

Blatchford and the Exhibition Lands redevelopment are important pieces of Edmonton's housing puzzle, but they're just pieces. Solving our housing crisis requires embracing density as a city-wide solution, not a problem to be contained in specific areas.

This makes sense. I hear a lot of pushback against other neighbourhoods taking on density and just putting everything in Blatchford, and Blatchford is a good reference for denser development, but the city as a whole needs to take on denser housing if the supply is to keep up with demand. This also goes for adding a few new towers downtown.

Many of the complaints are about parking and traffic, but if a majority of the infill is being built close to transit isn't that what we want? That would reduce the need for a vehicle and parking in the long run, and maybe some families could go down to only owning a single car at the very least? I still think we need more and better transit, but this is moving in the right direction.

As we head into summer, Edmonton has added new water stations to ease the heat.

New stations were added to Coronation Park and near Alex Taylor school downtown.

Lucy is featured in this documentary filmed in Canada, the US, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Argentina and Swaziland, the docu-film contrasts the difference between elephants confined in zoos with elephants thriving in their natural habitat. The film is centered around Lucy, Edmonton Valley Zoo's 50-year-old elephant, and the work of animal rights advocates as they attempt to have Lucy moved from the Edmonton zoo where she can live with other elephants.

This has been an issue for a long time and one of the reasons I think there is a stigma against families living in apartments. I've been going to zoning meetings recently and one of the main things I hear is "we need single family housing because we want families to live in the neighbourhood!". Why can't families also live in apartments or condos? Hopefully changes like this can be implemented and create these options!

The party did not comment on its reasons for parting ways with Loyola. Loyola has not responded to request for comment.

The party's decision to drop him as a candidate comes after the National Post reported they had found a video from 2009 in which he appears to be praising Hezbollah and Hamas at an anti-NATO protest. Both are listed as terrorist groups in Canada.

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