- City council is "calling for minimum standards for homeless shelters," an action which would aim to improve the system and ease impacts on surrounding communities.
- The City of Edmonton has broken ground on the Edmonton South Soccer Centre expansion project which will create two new indoor fields. “The new facility will house a year-round concrete field and upgraded turf field that will allow ball hockey, lacrosse and inline hockey to double their annual fall and winter programming,” said Adrian Newman, CEO of the Edmonton Soccer Association.
- Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says there is no evidence that suggests AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine has adverse effects. "The National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI) changed its guidelines (on March 16) on the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine and is now recommending it be given to those over the age of 65," reports CBC News.
- Walmart plans to close six locations, including one in Edmonton: the Abbottsfield location in the city’s northeast.
- "Giant inflatable humanoids have started popping up around Edmonton’s downtown at secret locations," according to CTV News. The exhibit is part of the city's Downtown Spark project.
- Edmonton will become the first Canadian city to welcome back Lime scooters in 2021, reports Global News. The company plans to relaunch 100 e-scooters on Wednesday afternoon. Edmontonians took nearly 500,000 trips with Lime last year.
- Digital hub micebook. published a case study on how Edmonton successfully hosted the Stanley Cup playoffs last summer.
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By Emily Rendell-Watson and Mack Male