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Food society seeks Parks approval Members of the Jasper Local Food Society appeared before the Planning and Development Advisory Committee last week, seeking a positive recommendation for the use of the McCready Centre parking lot for this summer’s f

Dear Editor, I read your article about development in Jasper (“Home improvement a complicated process”) and felt it was disingenuous.

Dear Editor, I am confused as to why there is such a difficulty for council in allowing the rodeo to continue its 37-year-old tradition of having the indoor arena as a venue. It can’t be the cost.

S. Makowsky photo This year’s Jasper Folk Music Festival might be more than four months away, but that doesn’t mean the Jasper Folk and Blues Society is resting on its laurels.

The temporary foreign worker program is flawed. There’s just no denying it. People, Canadian and otherwise, are being abused.

N. Veerman photo The intersection of Connaught Drive and Highway 16 was the scene of a three car pile-up, April 24. Around 9:30 a.m.

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The government’s recent ban on temporary foreign workers in the food service industry has the potential to dramatically impact Jasper businesses.

T. Nichols photo The local Ducks Unlimited committee celebrated its 25th anniversary April 26, with a wine and cheese social at the Sawridge Inn and Conference Centre.

Parks Canada photo In the first four months of the year, eight animals have died on the railway tracks within Jasper National Park—four of those have died in town.