David Staples: Shots fired! Walters pushing for new civic vision

Coun. Michael Walters is a man on a mission.
Walters has been a team player for his five years at city hall but he’s tired of the status quo. He’s now exhibiting a burning impatience to push for Edmonton to become not just an efficient city or a woke enclave of social justice, but a splendid city, as he calls it, highlighted by the jewel of a far more vibrant river valley core.
In a series of speeches, blog posts and interviews, Walters calls for a number of linked measures: a hard l