Banff

“The registrations for 2023 have more than doubled those registered in 2021 and 2022 combined for this program and the data shows the continued growth of this beloved program.”

“From what we have been told so far, the purchase included all warranties for outstanding vehicles. … We’re watching for the closing of the sale and then we’ll get more firm timelines.”

“Density will continue to be an essential tool for helping us achieve our shortfall of 700-1,000 homes. We’ve seen a 10 per cent increase to our housing stock in the last decade and that’s attributable to making density more permissible in our community. We know that this works and it helps us build more housing.”

LETTER: Our town and national park face a huge decision about Liricon’s proposal for the railway lands.

“We’re looking forward to using this information as a launching point for conversations with other arts and culture organizations in town to get some creative opportunities to bring back to council to look at how that FTE (full-time employee) complement might best fit.”

“This was identified in independent third party analysis of the organization staffing resources, and through that process, the finance department was identified as the most under-resourced level of staff."

“I don’t have complete specifics, but this type of overpass is unique and had some design challenges, which the contractor has been able to adjust to, but that put the project behind schedule.”

LETTER: I’ve just learned that Canadian Blood Services finally lifted the restrictions that kept those of us who lived in Great Britain during the 'mad cow' years in the mid- to late-1980s from giving blood in Canada. It was almost 40 years later – that was a long wait.

The Town of Banff's service review and budget deliberations got underway on Dec. 4.

“The district’s taking steps to respond to all the results and this one in particular.”