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Opinion: Press pause on demolishing U of A's historic Ring Houses


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It has been some two months since the alarm was sounded in the Edmonton Journal’s opinion page concerning the University of Alberta’s planned May demolition of the four remaining Ring Houses.
Since February, 2,455-plus members of the public have signed a petition urging the U of A to press pause on the demolition proposal for one year. And signatures keep coming in. What is the harm in asking for a year’s delay? None. This would allow these historic homes to be professionally assessed and evaluated for repurposing as was done in 1970 for Rutherford House, at the time up for demolition by the U of A. ....

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Opinion: U of A's Ring Houses contain the school's DNA


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In a recent opinion piece in the Edmonton Journal, I was quoted regarding the University of Alberta’s proposal to demolish/sell the Ring Houses, and now I wish to speak for myself.
I view the stories embedded in the four remaining Ring House homes as the U of A’s DNA. And, as the first university in the province, the U of A belongs to the entire province, and to U of A graduates and their families. The U of A is imprinted on all of us.
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