Kananaskis Country

“Given that the municipality was not invited to the table and was not involved in negotiations. I would have much preferred the government covering the retroactive pay so we could cover the increased cost going forward.”

“We have not done a good job of telling the story. You can look at so many different streams of the tourism eco-system that are independently understood but people don’t understand that rolls into a larger sector.”

How a municipality passes information to its residents is among the most essential tasks for local government.

“This was a really large, significant avalanche cycle that took out almost all main features along the Spray [Lakes] Road,” said Darren Vonk, rescue specialist with Kananaskis Mountain Rescue.

“We’re still kind of digesting this, but we’re bridge-building – elder Una and I. We’re not happy with the decision, but we’re going to spring off it and something good is gonna come from it.”

“With a lower snowpack and kind of a more moderate end to winter we should expect to see bears on the landscape pretty much now.”

“We are dealing with highway speeds because it is a highway off-ramp, it is going to require safety audits and we don’t want to rush the process"

“It is important to have different perspectives and we hope that the people who are attending will bring their perspectives and comments and impressions of what happened."

Canada has a fever. Our north is already warming at two to three times the mean global average. Even in the increasingly unlikely event that the world does manage to come together to keep mean temperature increases to below 2 Celsius, Canada is rapidly on its way to being at least 3 C hotter later in this century.

On April 9, Kananaskis Mountain Rescue was called to respond to the scramblers who lost their way taking an alternative route down the mountain after they met up along the trail and agreed to descend together.