- A Mill Woods restaurant has handed out thousands of free meals since the pandemic began, according to CBC. Dil-E-Punjab is able to keep providing the meals through community contributions and some support from the provincial government, and the restaurant plans to continue as long as possible.
- A "hate-filled" Instagram account is being condemned by the Edmonton Public School Board after it appeared online last weekend. The board has reported the "white alliance" account that is linked to Strathcona High School to the Edmonton police.
- Mayor Don Iveson and a local gun shop owner reacted to the federal government's new gun legislation on Feb. 16. The new law would allow municipalities to "ban handguns through bylaws restricting their possession, storage and transportation." Iveson said a network approach would be preferable: "While symbolically the delegation of authority is consistent with what we’d usually ask for, a much more robust and networked response to combatting the proliferation of guns and holding people accountable for their violent uses is ultimately what’s going to be needed here.”
- The leader of an Indigenous community watch group is speaking out after a video of Edmonton police officers ordering people out of a downtown LRT station in frigid temperatures came to light. "This is inhumane," Judith Gale, local patrol leader with Bear Clan Patrol, told CBC.
- Council's urban planning committee heard from more than 30 people who spoke in favour of Prairie Sky's proposed gondola on Tuesday. An initial framework to enable the project to move forward will be considered at the full city council meeting on Monday, Feb. 22.
