Opinion

Photo radar… is it working effectively, as some statistics would suggest, or are people merely becoming accustomed to the locations and vehicles used by the contractor that is cashing in from leadfoot Canmore drivers – and slowing down at, or avoidin

Nothing succeeds like success, they say. By that definition, recent large-scale special events in Banff National Park could be viewed as successful in that they’ve attracted large numbers of tourists/participants; thousands of them.

This week was a good week for some housecleaning-type issues here in the valley.

It’s been a week when things were hopping, literally and figuratively, in Banff. Of particular note is the fact that feral rabbits have been seen hopping around, sparking concerns that a Canmore, Kelowna or Victoria-like “bunny issue” is at hand.

The fact that yet another bear has been destroyed by wildlife managers seems to illustrate that there is a real disconnect for visitors to our valley when it comes to understanding the wildlife we share our space with.

Have you seen the bumper sticker some Bow Valley vehicles sport threatening that its driver will, ‘come to your town and drive like you?’ Judging by the driving habits of visitors to our valley, if Bow Valley residents actually took up that cause and

Can you imagine packing up your belongings and moving to a different country? For good? Leaving your family behind in the hope of creating a better life for them all at some point? Throughout the history of Canada, of course, it’s a story that’s play

Kudos to volunteers in Field who have stepped up in an effort to keep groomed cross-country ski trails in the Yoho area open to the public.

So once again we see that one of the outstanding features of a long weekend in the Bow Valley, at least for quite a number of maniacs out there, is the need for speed – the compulsion to get out there and put pedal to the metal.

It’s not often we dedicate editorial space to the same issue in back to back weeks… But, again with the wildlife feeding? Last week, RMO had stories about a wolf being killed due to the fact it had lost its fear of people after being conditioned to a