Opinion

Each year at this time, the Outlook looks at the year past to share, one last time, the year that is about to end.

As Christmas Day nears, we’d like to thank everyone who threw their support and efforts into many charitable events during the past couple of weeks.

So, Banff’s town council members have entered into the seasonal Christmas spirit by giving themselves a raise.

What a convoluted process inclusion of a climbing wall in Canmore’s multi-million dollar Multiplex has become.

How appropriate that at the time of year when reindeer are all the rage everywhere you look, their North American counterparts are the focus of a long, long, long overdue breeding program.

Apparently, the old saying ‘what goes around, comes around’ has real validity when it comes to the issue of chain stores in Banff.

We’d like to tip our hats to Friends of Banff for stellar work over the past two decades.

On Friday, when the clock strikes the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th year of the new century, we encourage valley residents to be on hand, silent, in tribute to our veterans.

Branding – apparently it’s not just smokin’ hot iron on critter hide anymore. In decades past, a brand might have been a Bar K (–K), maybe a Lazy S (S ) or something even more deluxe, letter and symbol-wise.

On the upside, the province has come through in handing some money back to Alberta school boards. On the downside, even an influx of $420,000 isn’t helping the Canadian Rockies Public Schools (CRPS) find its way back into the black.