What started out as a sleepy campaign of shoo-in incumbents in Edmonton's municipal elections has turned an unexpected corner this summer as -- seemingly out of the blue -- "volunteers" began appearing on street corners and canvassing major events for signatures to keep the Edmonton City Centre Airport open.
The airport has served as a secondary airport, mainly for private jets, pilot training and medevac flights. It has not had scheduled passenger flights since a plebiscite in 1995 consolidated scheduled traffic at the Edmonton International Airport.
