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Canmore’s elected officials accepted a policy that will guide the municipality toward reconciliation, including changing local signage to include translations in Treaty 7 languages. Council voted unanimously at its Oct.

Opportunistic and hungry black bears are heading into town almost daily to feast on crabapples and other fruit trees.

The statistic is staggering to comprehend. In an especially marginalized ethnic group in a rugged district of Nepal south of the bustling capital city of Kathmandu, only one per cent of women can read and write.

Special events have long been used to entice visitors to the Banff townsite and surrounding national park to spend their bucks.

It’s not often a politician, municipal, provincial or federal, leaves the political arena without having failed in a re-election bid.

Canmore’s elected officials are still at a crossroads when it comes to finding a direction in which to pursue economic development and diversification in the community.

Residents, conservationists and politicians from Banff and Canmore march down main street, protesting the death of Bear 148 and the encroachment of humans into wildlife use areas during the "For the Love of Our Valley" protest in Canmore on Saturday (Oct. 7). See page 13 for more.

From a rodeo and motor rally to a ferris wheel and three-ring circus, these are some of the special events that never got off the ground in Banff. In an update to council Monday (Sept.

Banff National Park staff have been hard at work enforcing regulations this summer around illegal camping and fires during the extreme fire hazard and fire ban.

Banff politicians have given the green light to spend $44,800 for the purchase of a new piece of public art.