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"Parks Canada is aware of three wolves being trapped outside of the national park boundary in recent months."

Although the B.C. government has provided funding to Valemount for developing an economic plan, Mayor Owen Torgerson argued the Village did not have the means to implement it.

A court date has been set in advance of a fatality inquiry for three people killed when a tour bus tumbled down an embankment on the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park.

"Providing 'educational' materials to schools is part of a larger strategy to downplay or deny the impacts of continuing to burn gas, oil and coal."

The new funding will go toward upgrading old equipment and technology as well as adding new stations in under-monitored areas.

“We are very well versed in our evacuation planning, but I’d say the conversation of re-entry and recovery with the community is still very new as a concept for folks," said Mayor Corrie DiManno.

"It was unique among the millions, to say the least."

The forum was hosted at the Forest Park Hotel on Tuesday (April 8) by the Jasper Park Chamber of Commerce and moderated by Nadine McIsaac, director of operations for Jasper lodging at Pursuit Collection.

The program is estimated to create 30 additional net new units over a three-year period.

Two in-person workshops were held at the Curling Lounge on Monday (April 8) to identify town values, beginning the multi-year process of creating a new town plan for Jasper.