Kananaskis Country

“The cultural residency program will allow us to bring onto our team a part-time Indigenous curator from the Stoney Nakoda. We believe that Indigenous stories need to be told by Indigenous people and our job is to give them the space to do so.”

“We are really excited. Everyone is working away at their various areas and things are coming together really well. We still have tickets available and especially day tickets. So, if you want to have a good day outing, its perfect you come to the festival.”

“In many cases, people make decisions about voting based on if they think that their vote can make a difference. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of course. You sometimes see lower voter turnout when people think their vote won’t make a difference.”

“If there's a good crop, they’ll literally just park themselves into a shrub bush and often engorge on them. It goes through their system pretty fast and sugars get extracted.

“We’ve been all over the world, but we really find Canadians love Canada. They love going to places they don’t know much about. It was time for Canmore and Kananaskis to be in the limelight.”

“The Bow Valley is one of the most important areas for grizzly bears in the Y2Y region. If we fracture grizzly bear movement in this region, we hurt that chain. Helping grizzlies move through here is important.”

An investigation into an alleged vandalizing of Indigenous wall pictographs at Grotto Canyon is being looked into by Alberta Environment and Parks.

EDITORIAL: Foreign workers may not be citizens of Canada and it can be easy to ignore a situation, as an essential part of the country’s workforce we owe it to them to lessen the risk and improve regulation against those who try and take advantage.

“They dug the creek down four metres to do this creek mitigation. They didn’t line it. They didn’t armour the bed. They didn’t do anything. Now it is like a channel that is carving down there.”

EDITORIAL: Provincial governments across Canada have been steadily offloading costs to local governments in an effort to make their own annual budgets and deficits more amiable to citizens. However, it comes at a cost as the bills for services still need to be paid by someone.