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“It could include some sort of proof or verification that you do have a destination and our task team was looking at something like that, an online potential, recently,” interim city manager Adam Laughlin told reporters Thursday after council renewed the state of local emergency for another seven days.

“I think this most recent step where … we’re removing individuals that don’t have a destination by the end of the LRT line, and that will expand to our bus system, is a step that we can manage the movement of particular individuals that don’t have a destination.”

Meanwhile, the fate of 292 summer events planned for Edmonton remains in the balance as the city didn’t take action to force the cancellation of any events Thursday. But Laughlin said it will provide recommendations at the middle of every month for nearing events. As of right now, the current provincial orders prohibit any events from happening and the city is not currently accepting any applications. So far, 55 events planned for the summer have been cancelled.

Mayor Don Iveson said the option remains for the city to work with festivals on possible postponement to later in the summer if easing of restrictions allows.

“I know there are going to be disruptions to part of the festival season, but the major part of it is later in the summer and it’s too soon to say whether some of that might be able to go ahead,” he said. “We want to be very, very thoughtful about those kinds of decisions because they’re going to be incredibly disruptive to those organizations.”