Canmore

Children and youth are allowed to practice minor sports starting Monday (Feb. 8).

The Safe Park pilot program, postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19, is included in the 2021 operating budget. Council will vote to approve the budget at the end of February.

A public hearing has been set for March 2 for community feedback on the proposed rezoning, which includes a grocery store, gas station and car wash, and an innovation and technology hub with interest from the University of Saskatchewan as a potential tenant.

"They may be going through a rough patch, or may have suffered some kind of traumatic event. This gives them the opportunity to be safe and hopefully we will be able to connect them through the various helping agencies in the Bow Valley to accommodation that meets their needs." 

“I consider myself right in the middle on this,” said Where the Buffalo Roam's Mitch Narver. “I do want to go back to work, but I don’t want to go too early. As to whether or not this is too early, I really couldn’t say, because the numbers have been dropping pretty significantly, but they aren’t exactly non-existent at this point.”

The University of Saskatchewan has announced a formal partnership with Innovate Canmore and confirmed it would be a tenant in an innovation hub as part of Three Sisters Mountain Village's proposed Gateway project, should it be approved for rezoning.

Canmore Councillor Esmé Comfort put forward a successful motion on Tuesday (Feb. 2) to direct the mayor to write a letter to Premier Jason Kenney urging him to reinstate the 1976 coal policy rescinded by the UCP government last year.

"While our cases and hospitalizations are trending down, we still have work to do," said Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Deena Hinshaw on Monday (Feb. 1). "We have reached a place where we should be able to further ease measures on Feb. 8, but we have seen cases fall and rise before."

The 10-year funding agreement between STARS air ambulance and Alberta Health Services expired in 2019. However, before a new one can be finalized, a provincial review of helicopter emergency medical services must be completed first. The non-profit also has another $15 million to raise to complete its $135 million campaign to replace its nine BK117 helicopters in western Canada with the H145 model.

“That means trying to push them to make changes for the better where we can, that means trying to criticize with the intent of seeing improvement to the programs that exist, that means pushing them to get our economy reopened, to have a vaccine plan. All of those things that I’ve talked about, that is the first and foremost job.”