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Edmonton is not on track for its adopted community emissions targets: the City's own carbon budget reporting says so, and the latest inventory sits 3.0 million tonnes above its trajectory.

• Is Edmonton on track to meet its climate targets?Contradicted

By the City's court filings the buses underperformed the contract; '$82 million' is a claim, not a confirmed loss; and one procurement doesn't show electric buses fail in cold cities.

• Did Edmonton's Proterra electric buses substantially fail to deliver what the City contracted for?Supported
• Did Edmonton lose $82 million on its electric buses?Not established
• Does Edmonton's experience prove that battery-electric buses don't work in cold-climate cities?Contradicted

Edmonton's district plans are land use documents whose adopted text says they 'shall not restrict freedom of movement, association and commerce', wording Council added by amendment carried 12 to 0.

• Do Edmonton's district plans restrict, or create a mechanism to restrict, where residents can travel within the city?Contradicted

The run found no published Edmonton series matching demolished houses to what replaced them, so the panel established neither the price gap nor the affordability claim; both are Not established.

• On Edmonton lots where an old house was demolished for infill, is the housing built in its place worth more than the house that came down?Not established
• Would the housing built on Edmonton teardown lots cost a median-income household 30 percent or more of its income to buy?Not established

Winter thins cycling everywhere measured, but a subarctic Finnish region still made one winter trip in ten by bicycle, so cold alone does not decide; Edmonton's winter share is unmeasured.

• Does Edmonton's winter climate make cycling unworkable as a meaningful transportation mode?Contradicted