Taryn Berndt

Mayor Andrew Knack stated he is deeply disappointed and frustrated by the decision of the Edmonton Police Chief to travel to Israel and the Edmonton Police Commission Chair’s approval of this trip. He noted that for many Edmontonians, the violence in the West Bank and Gaza is not distant, with families grieving and worried about loved ones amid unimaginable hardships. He said decisions like these cause real hurt, damage relationships with communities that already feel marginalized, and break trust. He has asked the commission to review how the current policy on travel is decided, particularly given active travel advisories and sanctions in place, and expects the Edmonton Police Chief and Commission to meaningfully connect with the community to repair broken trust.

I haven’t been in downtown Edmonton in a while. It’s starting to resemble Vancouver’s Downtown East Side in terms of drug addicts out of their minds. So many damaged people just milling around, bent over, flailing. Once upon a time it wasn’t like this.

A comedian asked an audience member to come up on stage and tell a joke, and he nailed it This is so funny. 😂

A woman was arrested for abandoning her dog at an airport ticket counter at Las Vegas airport, police said. Footage shows the moment she left her 2-year-old goldendoodle at a JetBlue counter. According to police, she failed to complete the documentation required to travel with the dog as a service animal. After her boarding pass was denied, she abandoned the dog. She was later confronted by police at her departure gate, where she said the airline would not allow her to fly with the dog, according to authorities. She added that the dog had a tracking device, police said, implying the dog would be returned to her. While escorting her back to the dog, she "became hostile and resisted officers' attempts to detain her," police said. The woman was arrested for animal abandonment and for resisting arrest.