So please to see the shrub bed I looked after for @CityofEdmonton#PartnerInParks has it’s native plants coming in. I didn’t have the time or energy to sign up again this year so it is nice to see these shining among the grass. Hope they survive the summer mowing. @yegparks
EXCITING NEWS! Today we welcomed @R_Boissonnault, MP for Edmonton Centre, who announced a federal investment of up to $482,160 for a solar energy project!
THIS FUNDING WILL CONSTRUCT A SOLAR ARRAY FOR OUR MAIN WAREHOUSE, reducing our operating costs by at least $70K annually!
Burger it Forward is back again this February – with more participating restaurants than ever! THANK YOU to all the restaurants who signed up.
Don't know what Burger It Forward is? Learn more through the website and join us by participating in February: https://t.co/f5ac3hwURV
Jan16, 1911 • Alex Decoteau
OTD Decoteau becomes Edmonton's AND Canada's first indigenous police officer. Photographed here near 90th St. & Jasper Avenue (looking north) with Alberta's first Penitentiary in the distance (back-left)
📌#EdmontonWhenAndWhere
Today is the first day of Quviasukvik (ᖁᕕᐊᓲᑎᖃᕐᕕᒃ), the first day of the year for the Inuit.
Quviasukvik runs until Jan. 7 and the festival celebrates many things within Inuit culture.
So, let's learn more about Quviasukvik :)
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Dec. 13, 1754:
The Duke William, full of Acadians who had been deported from Canada by the British, sank in a storm, killing 360 people. Over 11,000 Acadians were deported and 5,000 died from disease, starvation and shipwrecks.
Learn more 👇
https://t.co/HAXGsK6bGg
Dec. 6, 1989:
A gunman went into École Polytechnique in Montreal and murdered 14 women, while injuring 10 women and four men.
Today is now the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.
Had some delicious food at Playwright in the Citadel before watching the amazing Ballad of Johnny & June @citadeltheatre. See it before it’s gone Dec. 8!