Canmore

“It’s really about math. How much does it cost us, what’s the budget piece, how much do we get from other sources and what’s left is what we need to collect from taxes?”

“We're trying to present a more complete picture, a more complete chronology of what we did over there. (It’s) an overview of what we did in Afghanistan, but it's still a better chronology of what's been presented to date."

"It’s a really significant step forward for mitigating the impacts of highways on wildlife in Alberta,” said Adam Linnard, Y2Y’s Alberta program manager.

“There’s a lot of real and neat interesting connections to Banff through the military. Banff has quite a history. There’s a great history in the town.”

When asked what the priorities for the Town of Canmore will be for the coming four years, all members of council offered the same answer following their election victories – affordability.

“My heart is with the survivors. We’re walking for the survivors to show them we care. We’re walking for the children for a better future. I cannot turn around and turn in the same track twice because Canada has only gone backwards and this journey is about going forwards.”

PHOTOS: Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?

“We know we don’t exist in isolation from the broader community and from the province, especially given we’re a tourism destination. Our community and employees are vulnerable to outside influences more than a regular community our size, so after everyone had submitted their vaccine status we knew we had a very high vaccine rate.

“This filming will give us insight into the complexity of film permitting at this level and provide the baseline necessary for future requests. This is the biggest filming in Canadian history, so it’s amazing all of the things that are in place."

“We did know there was going to be major changes on our board of directors, and getting a budget passed before the end of the year with brand new directors and brand new councils may have been quite difficult."