Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of our Edmonton 2025 Campaign Roundup!

With the 2025 municipal election underway, we'll be bringing you daily updates on all the policy proclamations, platform promises, and political point-scoring from the campaign trail.

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Campaign Roundup - Day 3:

• Advance voting runs from October 7th to 11th, 2025. The City’s online map tool has a list of times and locations for advance polls.
  
  
• Mayoral candidate Rahim Jaffer pledged to bring back spraying for mosquitoes, dandelions, and other weeds, suggesting that would help residents enjoy parks and public spaces.
  
  
• Mayoral candidate Andrew Knack released his Safer City Plan. It focuses on three pillars: creating safer communities through balanced policing and public health approaches, improving safety and vibrancy on public transit, and advocating for justice reforms and increased community supports to reduce repeat offending. The plan emphasizes collaboration with Indigenous-led organizations, social agencies, and all levels of government.
  
  
• The Edmonton Journal is doing a series asking Mayoral candidates why they should be Mayor. Dr. Omar Mohammad emphasized his outsider perspective, fiscal responsibility, and focus on practical solutions to housing, food security, and public safety. He is pledging to freeze property taxes, fast-track permits for affordable housing, expand auto-approvals for repeat building designs, convert vacant downtown offices into homes, and pilot a City-supported non-profit grocery store. On safety, he proposes a prolific-offender task force, expanded peace-officer presence, improved lighting, and using AI to reduce response times, while partnering with housing-first programs that provide wraparound supports like mental health care, addiction treatment, and job training.
  
  
• Mayoral candidate Tony Caterina was also featured in the Edmonton Journal. His platform is focused on fiscal discipline, public safety, and protecting neighbourhoods. He pledges to curb overspending, freeze costly bike-lane projects, and keep business taxes low while improving City infrastructure like bus rapid transit. Caterina also emphasized stronger policing coordination, addressing homelessness, and celebrating Edmonton’s achievements through a “City of Champions” initiative.

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