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Sean Moore, principal of the Advocacy School.

Creative Commons: Kleuske photo Council has requested that a municipal staff member attend future Planning and Development Advisory Committee (PDAC) meetings to ensure that the facts presented by community members are in fact true.

R. Gruys photo Parks Canada is dodging questions about a Nov. 28 legal deadline stemming from the Species at Risk Act, after failing to release any new information on its strategy for conserving critical caribou habitat by that date.

G. Wall photo While visiting Jasper’s Japanese sister city in 2012, members of council were taken to a beautiful garden to see a very special monument—a white lacquered post commemorating the 40-year relationship between the two communities.

Imagine going to bed, and waking up having lost 30 per cent of your body weight.

T. Nichols photo Mold found in the walls of the Jasper Emergency Services Building has halted repairs, as the municipality waits for test results to see whether it’s toxic.

N. Veerman photo This November, lip foliage ran rampant through the town of Jasper, as men of all ages did their part to raise awareness and funds for prostate and testicular cancers.

D. Osborne photo The brand new joint school facility was on lockdown Nov. 21. Fortunately, it was just a drill.

Parks Canada photo The sun is once again beaming down on Jasper National Park after 48 hours of heavy snowfall last week.

Creative Commons photo December is Impaired Driving Awareness Month, and the Jasper RCMP is stepping up enforcement to try to crack down on what remains one of the most serious road safety concerns in Canada.