Notices by allan (allan@mastodon.club), page 5

@mpjgregoire @keithzg but to circle back to the Atlantic article, we can change the zoning laws to encourage more shade. People like Mrs. Reeves show is that it can be done and how to do it.

@keithzg @mpjgregoire I went to a public lecture on this by the city's historian laureate back in February because I am a cool dude and I know how to party.

@mpjgregoire @keithzg I live in Oliver which also has tree line avenues, mostly Elm and Ash, but if wasn't for Gladys Reeves, and the Edmonton Tree Planting Committee she founded in 1923, none of those would be here. At several points, especially post WWII, the city administration wanted to remove them all in the name of progress but the horticultural society fought them off.

@keithzg @mpjgregoire I believe most of the boulevard trees are due to a pretty concerted effort by a citizen led group back in the day, now the Edmonton Horticultural Society, it's also largely why the river valley has been kept mostly free of development.

It wasn't that the city planned for boulevard trees, a grassroots organization made it happen and fought to keep them.

This article really buries the lede, talking about two people found murdered on the Alaska highway:

"Police in the region admit there are "growing community concerns" after a total of five people have been declared missing or murdered in the region in the past week"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-alaska-highway-couple-killed-1.5219740

@liaizon I think umlauts have been a standard part of english for ages, same with diaereses, for example in coördinate. Though usage has always depended on how fussily pedantic one is.