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City finances
What the City of Edmonton raises, borrows and spends: budgets, tax levies, capital projects, procurement and debt. Claims here usually hinge on definitions — gross versus net, capital versus operating, whose money — so the accounting is set out before any figure is checked.
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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
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