Opinion

Jasper, it’s almost time to engage. Sometime in the next four weeks, Parks Canada will release its long-awaited draft implementation strategy for the Maligne Valley, and at that time, yet another public engagement process will begin.

The rainbows are up, the events are planned and soon the party will begin. This weekend Jasper will celebrate its fifth annual Pride Weekend—an event that started with meagre beginnings in 2009 and this year has grown into the largest venue in town.

Dear Editor, Thanks for your paper’s recent review of Gabrielle. As the parents of a daughter with Williams Syndrome, we’re pretty excited about the film and we are hoping that it will help raise awareness of this rare syndrome.

Dear Editor, I have spent much time digging and asking pointed questions of those involved and it seems the story of the behind-the-scenes discussions in regard to the Maligne Tours Limited (MTL) resort are finally coming to light.

Jasper has been bustling with French culture this month, in honour of les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie, an annual three-week festival celebrated in communities across the country.

Dear Editor, It was interesting to note in the last issue of the Fitzhugh, regarding the progress of the library, that some worker decided to cover the sealed and architecturally accepted concrete walls with another layer of unacceptable concrete tha

On March 8, women and men around the world will celebrate International Women’s Day for the 103rd time.

If we had to guess—based on the site superintendent’s unwillingness to give a completion date and the state of the building right now—we’d say the library and cultural centre will still be under construction come March.

Dear Editor, Parks Canada describes the grizzly bear as an “icon of the Canadian Rockies wilderness” and, in the park management plan, commits repeatedly to “maintaining and improving” its habitat security.

In December we called on council to scrimp and save on the 2014 operating budget, and on Tuesday scrimp and save it did.