Canmore

"I'm not going to mince words – this is shocking. The community appears to have been broadsided by a decision that has been made behind closed doors."

All accused are due to appear in the Canmore provincial court house again on March 18.

"The Government of Alberta's decision provides Three Sisters Mountain Village and the Town of Canmore with clarity needed on the final piece of the corridor system."

“People with money don’t want the people without money in the town, but they don’t realize they can’t survive without them.”

The $50 million project to be called the Tamarack Lodge, approved by Canmore’s Planning Commission (CPC) in October 2019, has a tourist home permitted use and is already 80 per cent sold out.

"It doesn’t make people feel good, [I] just want to stop it so that everyone can be happy."

“We’re really hoping that this program, this project and the person who’s going to be the support worker will be able to deal with people and help them get into successful programs or get successfully housed very quickly to really minimize the negative impact of that kind of stress on a person who experiences that’s life.”

“Because the loudness everywhere you go it’s hard for them, they have to have their headphones on to drown out all the other sound. It’s a safety issue when you think about, so having this coming into place is amazing."

The building, called Moose Meadows and proposed by Basecamp Resorts and Moose Realty owner, Sky McLean, was presented to the Canmore Planning Commission (CPC) on Jan. 29, and will be beside Cam Clark Ford, classified as a mixed-use light industrial building.

“Between 2015 and 2018 there was a very, very small slight reduction of 0.4 per cent. That’s really due to streetlights, so in 2016 there was the conversion to new LED streetlights and so streetlight greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 37 per cent during that time.”