We reflect on the biggest issues the 2025 campaign. Plus, we cover advance voting turnout and some last little bits of election analysis. 

Here are the relevant links for this episode:

2021 Election

• Oct. 15, 2021: Episode 151 - It's Election Thyme

Taproot Survey

• Comparison of Cartmell, Jaffer, Knack, and Walters
• Candidate Pitches
• The Taproot Survey is helping voters and candidates ahead of Election Day
• Taproot Survey
• Take the survey and match with candidates

Advance Voting

• Advance voter turnout higher than in 2021 with 1 week until Edmonton election
• Edmonton Election Results
• Fears for depressed turnout in the 2025 Calgary meh-lection

Campaign themes

• Edmonton's next city council will have to get creative balancing goals and taxes, former mayor says
• Too much, too fast: Majority polled in Calgary, Edmonton unhappy with pace of population growth
• Keith Gerein: This has been Edmonton's infill election, but we're getting only one side of the story
• The big picture on housing, density and affordability
• How do Edmonton's election issues in 2025 compare to 2021?

Election analysis

• Keith Gerein: Edmonton's money woes need more than wishful thinking
• Edmonton Votes 2025: Voting records reveal close councillor alignment ahead of election day
• Analysis: Cartmell's fundraising has significant crossover with UCP, while Knack has support from city staff
• If 'undecided' was a person, they'd be on track to be Edmonton's next mayor, poll suggests

Rapid fire

• Your province, your plate

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