The Downtown Business Association is calling for the Edmonton Police Service to do more patrols in the city’s pedway system now that things have gotten very quiet with workers vacating office towers and opting to work at home.
O’Donnell said he expects that things will get even more quiet if the Alberta government follows the lead of Quebec and Ontario, where non-essential businesses have been ordered to shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Certainly it looks like that’s going to be the way that things will be going at some point here in the immediate future,” he said. “It’s the best practice that we’ve seen across Europe to stop the spread, and so I think it’s a matter of time before it gets here.” As troubling as the growing trend