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Andrew Knack — CTV News "Edmonton mayor reflects on 2025, looks to year ahead" (Dec 31 2025)

Auto-caption transcript via yt-dlp. Reporter: Jeremy Thompson, CTV News Edmonton.

  • On campaign spending: "At the end of the day, we'll have likely raised about $250,000, which is incredibly low for a mayoral campaign." (Reporter notes rival Tim Cartmell's Better Edmonton party raised ~$850,000 by midsummer.)
  • On the 2026 budget (council passed a 6.9% tax increase): "my expectation is you'll see lower increases than what you saw in the last four-year budget, but enough of an investment that it still allows us to invest in the public services people expect."
  • On the $250M Ice District event park deal (Knack did NOT support it): "We have all of these groups that are doing great work, but I don't think we have anyone shepherding it."
  • On decorum: "I want our council meetings to be boring. I want them to be respectful and I want people to see action from them. So, I don't want to see a moment like that ever again."

Reading: the "public services people expect" line and the pride in low-cost campaigning are the compassion-and-thrift brand. Note he opposed the event-park subsidy — an honest complication; his objection was that it wasn't "shepherded," i.e. an economic-development critique, not an anti-subsidy-for-capital critique.

Original source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBXVKTjzu-E Retrieved: 2026-07-04