Vox Populi

Editor: It seems fitting that the BowCORD environmental forum was held on June 5, World Environment Day, since the natural mountain setting of Canmore and the Bow Valley is so important to our need for beauty and inspiration, for our recreation and f

Editor: Rabbit rescuers are sensitive to the predator risk. We want to protect people, rabbits and wildlife. Rabbit rescuers also want to save taxpayer costs and relationships. To enable success, Canmore needs to change policy roadblocks. 1.

Editor: A little more than one year ago, Canadians gave our Conservative government a majority mandate. In doing so they sent a message: Our country must seize the future with both hands.

Editor: Just over two months ago, the Conservative government announced this year’s federal budget would save taxpayers billions of dollars. The Harper government came through on that promise, but they did so at a huge cost to our environment.

Editor: My wife and I just returned from accompanying our grandson to the National Youth Climbing Championships in Montreal.

Editor: On the May long weekend I miraculously survived another trip on Highway 93 to and from a trip into the Columbia Valley. Some say this road and others where an animal or human is killed is a dangerous road, but that just is not so.

Editor: Like many Canadians, I have been watching, stunned with amazement (although not disbelief), at the alacrity and determination with which this Conservative government is dismantling social institutions, women’s and human rights groups, farmers

Editor: This is a copy of a letter sent to Mayor Sorensen and Councillors Karlos, Taylor, Baxter, Canning, Olver and Standish. We believe that, from the outset, the process of approving the bridge has been flawed.

Editor: Hutch did indeed touch many people in many ways. I recall years ago walking into Second Story when it was still upstairs, requesting everything he could find on Thor Heyerdahl of Kon Tiki fame.

Editor: At 8 a.m. last Saturday (May 19) I had just finished walking my dogs at the off-leash park near Quarry Lake, so I decided to walk downtown to pick up a weekend paper.