Opinion

Dear Editor, I’m not pleased about MP Jim Eglinski’s comment “don’t expect changes to the foreign worker program.” The federal Conservatives have their heads in the sand on this one.

If Jasper isn’t already famous for its breathtaking landscapes, it’s now on its way to becoming a full-blown reality TV star. Lately, the community has been teeming with film crews intrigued by our Rocky Mountain town and the people who call it home.

Dear Editor, I welcome Andy Klimach’s invitation to have a dialogue about Canada’s involvement in the war in Iraq and Syria (letter to the editor April 1st). It is indeed alarming that Canada is at war and there is hardly a peep about it.

Dear Editor, I think nothing speaks more to the heart of a community than the way they treat their children. As the old proverb says, “It takes a village to raise a child.

Gerald Gabernig photo Depression. It’s an illness often shirked off by people who don’t understand it; a taboo subject that no one wants to touch. But touch and understand we must—because people are suffering. They’re living in a pit of despair.

It would be a bleak life without volunteers. The streets quiet and the arena empty. Houses burning and trails in disrepair. The food bank closed and the Friends’ store too. Artifacts piled up and the town’s kids with nothing to do.

Twenty-one months ago I crammed my whole life into my Honda Civic and made a beeline across the country to start work at the Jasper Fitzhugh. At the time I knew almost nothing about the place that I would come to cherish so much.

Dear Editor, Half a world away one of the greatest threats to peace and stability of an entire region is being threatened by an incredibly dangerous and powerful group bent on establishing an extremist theocracy of sorts from the Dark Ages.

FluentU photo Living in Jasper, you’d think you’d get used to goodbyes.

N. Veerman photo “In Jasper it doesn’t matter who you love—it matters that you love!” Those are the words the Jasper Pride Festival Society lives by. They’re words of welcome.