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Author: Bryan Birtles

Edmonton’s Short-lived “Charity Meters”

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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

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