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  • On Tuesday, Edmonton council will review its mandatory mask bylaw, which is currently in effect until Dec. 31. On Monday, Calgary voted to keep its mask bylaw in place until July 5, at which point it will be reevaluated by council.
  • The Edmonton Public School Board will debate Tuesday whether to add two questions to the municipal ballot. The questions would address support for the K-6 draft curriculum and the education funding formula.
  • The Edmonton Police Service introduced the eagle feather — a sacred Indigenous symbol — to its policies and procedures on Monday. New EPS officers will now be able to choose, along with the bible and the Qur'an, to hold the feather while being sworn into service.
  • Despite travel restriction lifting in Canada, the Edmonton International Airport remains unable to offer international travel, reports Global News.
  • John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights is launching a new virtual reality app that will bring murals at five LRT stations alive. Paint the Rails features untold stories of diverse cultural communities and settlements in Edmonton.
  • Edmonton is the first Canadian city to use Uber for booking Lime scooters. The service became available Monday.
  • Details of a multimillion-dollar package to help fund research into the undocumented deaths and burials of Indigenous children will be announced this week. Crystal Fraser, an assistant history professor at the University of Alberta, says the work could take decades.
  • The province is telling Albertans that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are "interchangeable" and to book the earliest second dose appointment possible, amid a shipment delay.