Overview

• The NDP, led by Jim Dinn, touts a fully costed plan focused on $10‑a‑day childcare expansion, removing provincial HST from children’s essentials, lifting the minimum wage to $22 over four years, and building 1,000 affordable homes annually.
• The incumbent Liberals propose household relief such as removing provincial HST from residential electricity, halving the provincial fuel tax, maintaining a home‑heating supplement, and expanding school supports, funded by renegotiated Churchill Falls revenue.
• The PCs under Tony Wakeham emphasize tax relief and health investments, including raising the basic personal exemption to $15,000, permanently reducing the gas tax, expanding child benefits, offering free nurse practitioner visits, and adding four MRI machines while curbing reliance on travel nurses.
• A letter to the Edmonton Sun flags a surge in labour disruptions affecting Canada Post, Air Canada, Alberta public service, healthcare, and teachers, characterizing the Alberta teachers’ strike as especially consequential for students.
• Edmonton voices, including Police Chief Warren Driechel and the Downtown Revitalization Coalition, call for stricter bail for repeat and violent offenders, greater transparency on plea bargains, and closer police–prosecutor coordination to bolster public safety and economic confidence.