Banff

While administration at CRPS maintains a procedure that directs students to "dress appropriately" is a broad direction for principals to follow, handbooks tells students at one local high school to dress in a way that is not a "distraction" to others and to "please respect the modesty of yourself and others."

"We recognize how difficult masking would be, especially in lower elementary grades, which is why we are not relying on any single health measure to stop the spread of COVID-19 in the school setting," said Alberta Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw.

Due to the difficult terrain at the crash site and lack of road access, some of those injured were triaged and treated before being airlifted to a staging area where ambulances were waiting. Injuries ranged from serious head and pelvic trauma to leg and shoulder fractures. 

"We are still urged to not have large-scale public events, and the main reason for that is the inability to do contact tracing without registration, or some form of identification of individuals," said Jason Darrah, director of communications for the Town of Banff.

As of Tuesday (July 21) afternoon, the Bow Valley had 14 positive active cases confirmed with eight in Banff, six in the overall Canmore geographical area, which includes two cases in the MD of Bighorn and one in the town of Canmore

Once underway, the project is expected to generate 14 jobs in the Banff area

"Parks Canada has since received DNA lab results which confirm that the wolf involved in the Egypt Lake incident is the same wolf that was recently put down for exhibiting food conditioned behaviour near Sunshine Village."

“A COVID-19 outbreak in Banff is not a matter of if, but when."

"Something went wrong and he lost control. He tumbled about 400 metres to his death to the rocks on the fan below." 

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