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Your Council meeting took 3-0 votes and went private. What'd they hide?

Your Council’s March 31 Meeting Was… Efficient

If you blinked, you probably missed it. Edmonton City Council's Agenda Review Committee had a busy, if brief, meeting on March 31, 2026. According to the recent motions and voting records, it was a unanimous affair across the board, with all three attending councillors – A. Knack, A. Stevenson, and J. Wright – voting 3-0 to adopt the agenda, approve minutes, and even decide when to meet in public and, subsequently, in private. Honestly though, it takes longer to get through the security line at Rogers Place for an Oilers game than it took them to pass these items.

The committee also moved to amend the draft agendas as discussed. What those amendments entailed, precisely, remains somewhat obscured by the decision to meet privately under the *Access to Information Act* for item 2.1. One wonders if they were debating the finer points of our glorious River Valley trail system, which, as I’ve mentioned before, is forty times the size of Central Park.

What to watch for next is how these amended agendas manifest in future council discussions, and what exactly required that private session.

Darren Fedoruk (@deepnorth_yeg)

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