- The city's independent naming committee is working to create a renaming process, after calls to remove the namesakes of residential school supporter and advocate Bishop Vital-Justin Grandin were renewed this week. The report is expected to go to council Aug. 24, reports the Edmonton Journal.
- Canada's big city mayors are pushing the federal government for a timeline on ending chronic homelessness. They also want to see additional Indigenous housing supports. "There would be no time like the present as a gesture of reconciliation to lay out a very clear timeline involving Indigenous organizations in providing adequate housing to end chronic homelessness in this country," said Mayor Don Iveson.
- The Edmonton Metropolitan Region Board is finalizing an agricultural master plan aimed at conserving some of the province's highest quality farmlands, reports the CBC. The final public engagement sessions will be held in early June.
- The city's spray parks will reopen starting today and city golf courses will allow non-cohort play, as the province moves into Stage 1 of the reopening plan. Many city-run facilities remain closed until Stage 2, the city said in a press release.
- The city is becoming a North American leader in progressive urban design and city building, according to an analysis by the Winnipeg Free Press.
- Cheryl Whiskeyjack, the executive director of Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta on Monday. She was recognized for "bridging relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples in the spirit of reconciliation."
- The province announced it will fund a program to uncover undocumented burial sites at former residential schools. Details of the funding will be announced in the coming days.
