Edmonton city council passes bylaw to restrict sale of knives in convenience stores

Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi says convenient and speedy entree to knives makes the assemblage little safe.

The city’s concern licence bylaw has been amended to adhd a convenience store class and a explanation of knives that cannot beryllium sold successful those businesses.

The extremity is to bounds convenient oregon impulsive entree to knives but doesn’t impact the merchantability of mundane cutlery.

The bylaw is to travel into effect for idiosyncratic stores erstwhile they use for a caller licence oregon renew an existing one, but businesses are being urged to voluntarily region knives from their shelves immediately.

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The metropolis says the attack to enforcement volition chiefly beryllium complaint-based and that constabulary volition beryllium capable to prehend weapons erstwhile required.