Good afternoon Edmonton and Surrounding areas! Cunningham — as a rival to Alberta's first newspaper, the 23-year-old Edmonton Bulletin. All three school boards and public charter schools are funded through provincial grants and property taxes. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the low 50s. [223], The Telus World of Science is located in the Woodcroft neighbourhood northwest of the city centre. [185] In and around Downtown Edmonton, there are a few shopping districts, including the Edmonton City Centre mall, Jasper Avenue, and 104 Street. Each councillor is elected in a ward (electoral district); the mayor is elected at-large. [326] The Journal no longer publishes a Sunday edition as of July 2012.[327]. [142], In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the City of Edmonton recorded a population of 932,546 living in 360,828 of its 387,950 total private dwellings, a change of 14.8% from its 2011 population of 812,201. Dedicated psychiatric care is provided at the Alberta Hospital. Edmonton has a number of professional sports teams,[237] including the Edmonton Football Team, formerly referred to as the Edmonton Eskimos, of the Canadian Football League, Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, and FC Edmonton of the Canadian Premier League. [214], Edmonton's streets and parklands also contain one of the largest remaining concentrations of healthy American elm trees in the world, unaffected by Dutch elm disease, which has wiped out vast numbers of such trees in eastern North America. [313][314], The U of A is a board-governed institution[315] that has an annual revenue of over one billion dollars. [145], The Edmonton census metropolitan area (CMA) has the fifth-greatest population of CMAs in Canada and the second-greatest in Alberta, but has the largest land area in Canada. With direct air distances from Edmonton to places such as London in United Kingdom being shorter than to other main airports in western North America,[263] Edmonton Airports is working to establish a major container shipping hub called Port Alberta.[264]. Century Park will eventually house up to 5,000 residents. Twelve tornadoes had been recorded in Edmonton between 1890 and 1989,[76] and eight since 1990. You’re tired and stressed. [15], Edmonton's historic growth has been facilitated through the absorption of five adjacent urban municipalities (Strathcona, North Edmonton, West Edmonton, Beverly and Jasper Place)[16] in addition to a series of annexations through 1982,[17] and the annexation of 8,260 ha (82.6 km2) of land from Leduc County and the City of Beaumont on January 1, 2019. The most popular is the Whyte Avenue (82 Avenue) strip, between 109 Street and 99 Street; it has the highest number of heritage buildings in Edmonton,[208] and bars, clubs, and restaurants throughout, but mostly west of Gateway Boulevard (103 Street). As a result, the mall was evacuated as a precautionary measure. [298] Other area hospitals include Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert, Leduc Community Hospital in Leduc, Westview Health Centre in Stony Plain, and Fort Saskatchewan Community Hospital in Fort Saskatchewan. [278], Edmonton is a member of the Edmonton Metropolitan Transit Services Commission, which will begin service in mid-2022.[281]. The monopoly continued until The Edmonton Sun began publishing in 1978. [266] Service on the Canadian from Vancouver as far east as Winnipeg, including to Edmonton, resumed on 11 December 2020, with one round trip per week. 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