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Edmonton couple Ariane Latade and Doran Walker started VelociRippers Skateboarding Club so their four and five-year-old kids could learn to skate without worrying about how they'd fit in at all-ages parks. Now it's a full community.
Swap the Hall & Market is on right now at Westmount Community Hall (10978 127 St.) until 4 PM. Vintage and upcycled vendors, live music, pizza lunch, seed swap — plus they're collecting food bank donations.
Edmonton's parking rules are about to shift in a major way. City council is moving on big changes that'll affect how you park around town.
The company building Edmonton's $2.6 billion Valley Line West LRT extension was fined $120,000 after a worker was seriously injured on the job.
Hawrelak Park is officially back. The grand reopening features a 14-foot Indigenous art piece and a brand-new lakefront restaurant. Everyone's heading out to check it out.
downtown's got over 1,000 free events lined up for summer. concerts, markets, street festivals — basically your weekends are booked.
allergy season is brutal rn. late spring + dry air = pollen overload. stock up on tissues.
Allergy season is brutal right now. People are saying opening windows for fresh air backfired — pollen coating everything. Prescriptions barely helping.
Someone's setting off some seriously loud fireworks downtown right now — longest show people have heard in a while. Whole subreddit wondering what the occasion is.
Equifax just ranked Edmonton and Calgary among cities with the highest non-mortgage debt. Could be a rough sign for household finances across the prairie cities.
A month's worth of rain is coming to Edmonton in the next few days. Bring an umbrella and plan for wet weather — it's gonna be heavy.
One of the best parts of Edmonton is finding geese families — "cobra chickens" — hanging out on the city's ponds. Someone just posted a peaceful moment with a whole crew, and yeah, those are definitely the waterfowl and birds everyone's here for.
People are out protesting against the UCP right now — if you want to join, head downtown and find the crowd. Photo evidence on Reddit of locals showing up.
Edmonton coffee roaster quietly building a following. r/Edmonton giving it a huge shoutout right now.
Elections Alberta just posted important referendum info for May 2026 on Reddit. If you're voting or want to know what's on the ballot, the official details are live now.
Rally info posted on r/Edmonton — check Reddit for specifics on what's happening and where.
So someone got a surprise bill from their property management company for move-out damage costs that weren't in their lease. Paint spots the size of quarters and drywall holes from picture hangers — property's saying thousands in repairs. No documentation that they paint between tenants, but apparently that's standard. Tenants are weighing whether to fight it.
Meet Corb Lund and sign the Water Not Coal petition. Details on r/Edmonton.
Someone posted asking if anyone else has brutal mosquito bite reactions and what actually works to stop the itching. Turns out people are digging up old-school ammonia-based products and swapping home remedies. The consensus: old After Bite smelled like straight ammonia and actually worked way better than modern stuff.
NE residents wondering why hummingbirds aren't showing up even with feeders and plants. Anyone in Clareview, Heritage, or Kirkness seeing them?
