- Mayor Don Iveson said the city has reached out to businesses to see if a proof-of-vaccination bylaw, like the one recently passed in Calgary, would be useful. On Wednesday, Calgary passed a bylaw mandating businesses and facilities to opt-in to the province's restrictions exemption program. Iveson said there hasn't been the same level of backlash against businesses in Edmonton.
- The city announced it will permanently remove the mural at Government Centre LRT Station later this fall. In June, council voted unanimously to cover the mural, which glorifies the residential school system, with orange and remove the name of Bishop Grandin from the station.
- Westglen School in central Edmonton is temporarily shifting to online learning as of Friday, amid a surge of COVID-19 cases. Students are expected to return to in-person learning on Oct. 8. Meanwhile, Alberta Health is recommending that unvaccinated children with a close COVID-19 contact in their household stay home from school for two weeks.
- Eight faculty associations, including NAIT and NorQuest's, are calling for better protections against COVID-19 for faculty and students at post-secondary institutions. They want to see the reinstatement of contact tracing and mandatory quarantine, as well as better compliance measures.
- Lorelei Mullings and Andrea Jenkins are closing out 75 days of healing at Enoch Cree Nation. The two Indigenous women have been grieving the discovery of unmarked graves near former residential school sites and bringing awareness to potential gravesites in Edmonton. They will be in Enoch Cree Nation on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Sept. 30, for one last gathering.
- The city and the Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom Centre (IKWC) hosted a ground blessing event on Tuesday at kihciy askiy, which means "Sacred Earth" in Cree. The ceremony marked the beginning of construction on the first permanent, urban Indigenous ceremonial site in Canada.
- Alberta's hospitals are nearing the 90% threshold of their surge capacity — meaning they will soon need to start triaging patients for critical care. Meanwhile, Alberta Health Services has temporarily paused mental illness and addiction programs to direct staff and resources to dealing with the influx of COVID-19 patients.
