I guess if you never get the policy right, you’ll continually have to revise it. But how hard is it to get it right?

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Before he left for China, Mayor Andrew Knack said he wants to have a conversation about the city’s snow-clearing policies going into the next four-year budget cycle. The next budget cycle will cover 2027 to 2030.

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I’m sorry, Mr. Mayor, but the snow that needs clearing is here now, not a year from now or four years from now.

While you’re conversing about whether taxpayers will tolerate higher taxes in the future to pay for more plowing (which is itself the wrong conversation to have), Edmonton drivers are slip-sliding into one another right now. They are navigating around windrows in the middle or on the side of streets trying somehow to fit two lanes of traffic into the one-and-a-half lanes left by city plows. They are bouncing along on rutted,........

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