Editorial

With spring comes rejuvenation. The sunshine is warm, the days are long, our energy levels are up and we’re enthusiastic to get outside. Nature is calling and we’re intent to answer.

A zombie confinement area, a greenhouse, a roller paintball arena, a Japanese garden, an outdoor skating rink, a make-shift Spirit Island or a 4,000 km pit to the centre of the Earth.

Housing is an age old issue in Jasper.

It’s no secret that Jasper’s caribou are in dire straits.

Jasper is often marketed as a place to unplug—a place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life and to reconnect with nature. It’s sold as a place to get back to basic.

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

Although an outdoor rodeo would be ideal, and it could quickly solve all of the issues surrounding the use of the Jasper Arena, it seems unlikely that one will occur this summer.

Three former Parks Canada bosses made national headlines last week, when they released a letter to the minister of environment, asking that she put a stop to Maligne Tours’ proposal to build a hotel on one of Jasper’s iconic lakes.

We’ve done our best to stay positive, but the latest surprises at the library and cultural centre have finally snuffed our optimism.

It’s been nearly two years since the Jasper Sustainability Club for Youth was given the big news: a sustainable, net-zero classroom—the first of its kind—was coming to town, and it was because of the students’ words and passion that it was going to b