Election 2025: Campaign Roundup - Day 4

Welcome to Day 4 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 4:

• Mayoral candidate Andrew Knack met with students, youth, and community leaders to discuss supporting young people in Edmonton. He pledged to help student entrepreneurs, create youth roundtables for direct involvement in City decisions, and advance Truth and Reconciliation by mentoring Indigenous youth and promoting Indigenous culture and history in City spaces.
  
  
• The Edmonton Journal is doing a series asking Mayoral candidates why they should be Mayor. Andy Andrzej Gudanowski is running on a platform centered on fighting crime, strengthening ethics in politics, and improving social supports. He promises to cut crime by up to 80% by 2026, create Guardian Angels and street pastor volunteer services, and ensure universal access to doctors, dentists, therapists, and legal aid. Gudanowski also pledges housing for all, affordable food, better pensions for seniors, financial support for low-income families, and referendums on major social initiatives. He frames his candidacy as one of service, inclusivity, and pushing Edmonton into a fairer, safer future.
  
  
• Tim Cartmell also told the Edmonton Journal why he should be Mayor. He argued that City Hall is adrift, with high taxes, wasted spending, and declining public safety eroding trust. Drawing on his background as an engineer and City Councillor, he pledged practical, disciplined leadership focused on accountability and value for money. His platform includes a safe streets strategy with policing and community support, a blue-ribbon panel to review the budget, and reforms to speed up permits and prioritize infrastructure and affordable housing over “vanity projects.”
  
  
• Michael Walters, another candidate for the Mayor’s chair, released a plan focused on fixing basic City services. His priorities include better project management for road construction, more reliable snow removal with expanded supports, and improved parks through new amenities, community gardens, and river valley activation. Walters also promises to freeze transit fares for four years, boost safety with more staff and peace officers, and expand night and on-demand service.
  
  
• Mayoral candidate Omar Mohammad spoke with CBC about his plan for a City-supported discount grocery store. You can listen to the interview here.

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