- The City of Edmonton is implementing a mandatory vaccine policy. City staff will be required to receive two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by Oct. 31, after which unvaccinated employees will have to undergo rapid testing twice a week or be placed on leave without pay.
- MacEwan and the University of Alberta have immediately opted in to the province's Restrictions Exemption Program when classes resumed Monday. Concordia University and NAIT will opt in to the program in October and have extended their withdrawal deadlines for students who do not want to meet vaccine requirements.
- The John Howard Society of Canada has asked the Edmonton police to investigate the Edmonton Institution, the maximum security men's prison in the northeast. The group claims that inmates are being denied medications and unlawfully placed in solitary confinement.
- Businesses are reporting high compliance with the province's new vaccine passport system, which launched on Monday, reports the Edmonton Journal. There is still lack of clarity around how the rules apply to delivery staff, however.
- The Edmonton Oilers will honour Joey Moss and Kevin Lowe this season. Moss, who worked as a locker room attendant since 1984 until his death last fall, will have a dressing room named after him, while Lowe's jersey will be raised when the Oilers host the New York Rangers on Nov. 5.
- Edmonton Fire Rescue Service's Camp Inspire ran for the second time over the weekend. The camp is designed to give women interested in firefighting some first-hand experience. There were 20 participants from across the country.
- The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) filed a formal grievance against the province over National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In August, the province announced it would not recognize Sept. 30 as a statutory holiday.
- Newcomer Blake Desjarlais is one of two federal NDP candidates elected in Alberta, alongside Edmonton-Strathcona incumbent Heather McPherson. Former city councillor Ben Henderson lost to incumbent Tim Uppal in Edmonton Mill Woods. The results for Edmonton Centre were still too close to call at the time of publication. Click here for Edmonton riding-by-riding election results.
