MD of Bighorn

“For every dollar of residential, we get about $3.75 for non-residential. That keeps us in a healthy balance. We are maintaining a good ratio I feel for non-residential to residential as far as the collection of the tax base.”

“I’m not saying there isn’t COVID in Banff, but another relevant question is are people from Calgary going to the bathroom in Banff? If I were in Banff, I would still be careful.”

“Most of it is underwater. A little bit along the shoreline. It is actually owned by TransAlta, but it is in our boundary. It corrects an old change that should have been done years ago, to the 1940s or earlier, when the lake was formed.”

The Banff Canmore Community Foundation (BCCF) announced its 2022 community grants to 26 Bow Valley organizations for a total of just under $140,000 in grants.

A proposed change to the visitor accommodation bylaw in the MD of Bighorn will have to wait a few weeks longer as council looks to get more information from administration.

As Bow Valley communities continue pushing forward in promoting public transit and active modes of transit rather than travelling entirely by personal vehicles, there are bound to be growing pains.

Police are investigating a hit-and-run death in the Canmore area on Sunday (May 1).

After 27,700 kilometres by foot, raft, kayak and bicycle from South America to North America, the women behind Her Odyssey are preparing for the last leg of their journey to the Arctic in Banff.

“We’re always keeping an eye out for are people happy? Are they satisfied? How can we improve their visitor experience? What can we do differently? And generator noise has been coming up more.”

“We feel like tourists. We don’t feel like we are being treated like neighbours and part of a community. We feel like we are being treated like the rest of the world who come to visit Canmore.”