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  • Edmonton’s Short-lived “Charity Meters”

    Bryan Birtles

    On April 30, 2001, Mayor Bill Smith smiled for the collected throng of reporters and photographers and dropped the first…

  • Edmonton Folk Fest: How Did We Get Here?

    Bryan Birtles

    In 1980, with the province celebrating its 75th anniversary, an idea was hatched by Don Whalen and Mitch Podolak to…

  • MC Hammer at West Edmonton Mall, 1991

    Bryan Birtles

    In 1991 there was no one bigger than MC Hammer. His 1990 album, Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ‘Em would eventually go…