Banff

 “Whatever can be done right now to ensure the safety and health of residents and workers, while striving to reduce the overhead burden on tourism organizations that are struggling to survive, is where we will continue to focus our energy."

The Banff Community Christmas Concert will be happening this year with a live-streamed event on Dec. 18 at 6 p.m.

“The studded tire rebate program is being proposed as a permanent winter offering Oct. 1 through March  31 following its popularity."

“We are trying to encourage housing supply, and yet if I’m to do a development, it’s cheaper for me to pay the Town this roughy $35,000 per bedroom than to go ahead and build the commensurate amount of housing," said Coun. Peter Poole

A group of experienced guides and a clinical psychologist in the Bow Valley are working together to create a peer support model – the Mountain Muskox mentorship program – to help those who experience trauma in the mountains

The Town of Banff is investigating the possibility of a pedestrian zone on Bear Street this winter, including construction of a skating rink, with council set to debate the idea on Monday (Dec. 7)

“You might ask how can such a big machine like a train be difficult to detect? But when trains are travelling downhill, they can be surprisingly quiet, especially if they are coming around corners."

“What this is saying is we’d be going after the larger production films, which has a knock-on effect of how many room nights they’d be staying,” said Jason Darrah, the Town of Banff’s director of communications and marketing.

“In terms of limiting people coming into town, one of the issues we dealt with previously, and continue to deal with, is you don’t really get to say ‘you can’t come in and yet you go out,’ ” said Mayor Karen Sorensen.

“It’s great to have some good news in 2020 … it's an iconic restaurant that’s been around for 43 years and we’re excited about moving into an iconic location.”