Addressing Elevation Place concerns
I’m writing to provide some clarification on Elevation Place. It is the hope and desire of the Town that Elevation Place be embraced by residents and visitors alike. To date, the response to purchasing...
View ArticleSale of 101 Spring Creek Drive wrong
The Canmore, strategic plan is meant to provide a framework for making decisions that will be sustainable and would provide guidelines that will shape Canmore into the community its citizens desire.
View ArticleSeniors' tour of Alberta
Recently I wrapped up a two-week, 23-town tour across Alberta to try to understand seniors’ issues. Seniors’ issues are some of the most complex and misunderstood issues that are out there. I hoped to...
View ArticleOngoing South Canmore street and drainage rehabilitation
I was appalled today to receive another letter from the Town of Canmore Engineering Services to say they are continuing on with the construction plan following the 2009 council approved Street...
View ArticleGolder report not intended to be objective
Canmore generally looks forward to environmental assessments to help clarify the impacts of proposed developments. But the inherent bias of developer-funded assessments has led the Town of Canmore and...
View ArticleElevation Place waiver release
We are expecting the opening of Canmore’s $39M ‘indoor playground’ soon. Elevation Place is being constructed with local and provincial public (taxpayer) funds; intended to be a community resource and...
View ArticleThree Sisters Development
The proposed Three Sisters Development needs to be scaled down.
View ArticleGolder Associates Ltd. give unbiased solutions
The proposed future development of the remaining lands belonging to Three Sisters Mountain Village ULC — in Receivership (TSMV) has generated a great deal of emotional discussion and debate in Canmore...
View ArticleThank you everyone for your kindness
I have often admired those people who took the time to voice their opinion, give thanks, offer constructive suggestions or had something monumental to say through a letter to the editor. I myself have...
View ArticleCompliments for hospital kitchen
One hears a lot about unpleasant hospital food. I have just got home from a few days visit to Canmore Hospital where I was fed so very well.
View ArticleThree Sisters: Addressing critical issues
I read the interesting letter from Louise Menard, Chief Operating Officer of Golder Associates in Canada (Canmore Leader, April 10) in response to a letter from Jim Pissot, Executive Director of the...
View ArticleBiodiversity undervalued by modern economies
A critical report on biodiversity and banking was delivered to the United Nations in March 2010 by one of the world’s largest service consultants. It noted that “biodiversity is undervalued by modern...
View ArticleRe: Riding the Wave
While the increase in cycling events being hosted in the area is in general a good thing (Leader editorial, May 15), these events will not be with us for long if the destruction of local cycling trails...
View ArticleNational Parks: Our riding’s gift to the world
On May 17 on behalf of our government, I announced the grand re-opening of Banff National Park Cave and Basin National Historic Site.
View ArticleNorquay summer use
Approval by the Federal Government allowing Summer use at Mount Norquay indicates less quality of life for grizzlies now using this area for movement and habitat. Am I missing something here?
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