Editorial: City loses trust

In what has become an all-too familiar scenario, Edmonton councillors fumed Wednesday when they learned, belatedly, of a major case of mismanagement at city hall.
In this latest instance, city auditor David Wiun revealed that officials had been treating the city’s current planning reserve like a slush fund. In simple terms, tens of millions of dollars paid by developers and homeowners for the costs of processing their permits was instead diverted to inappropriate uses without proper docume