Opinion

In recent years, the term wildlife corridor, much like the term affordable housing, is one that has incrementally crept into the Bow Valley vernacular.

It will be interesting to see how much support there is for the renaming of Banff’s Tunnel Mountain. Tunnel Mountain, after all, is a mountain without a tunnel, was not named after someone named Tunnel and does not resemble a tunnel.

While affordability in the Bow Valley is a term never far from anyone’s lips, and one that can spill out during a conversation about almost anything, it’s nice to see there are some things in the works to address the situation.

Talk about a positive initiative.

It has to be one of the most enduring Canadian images of all time – a young man running with a peculiar gait in the pouring rain, with an artificial right leg, along the Trans-Canada Highway with Marathon of Hope emblazoned across his chest on a T-sh

You know, it sometimes gets to be a bit demoralizing to hear constant backlash against pretty much anything that is proposed in our mountain towns.

We’re not sure exactly what kind of sign the Banff Food Bank being short of necessities at this time of year is, but it’s clearly not a good sign.

Thank you, Canadian Olympians. Despite predicted gloom and doom regarding facilities, water quality, displaced citizens and environmental aspects of the Rio Olympics, nothing, it seemed, could dampen the spirit of our Olympians.

We feel it’s now safe to describe the situation concerning the Bow Valley wolf pack in Banff as having reached the dizzying heights of ludicrous.

We have to say, we just never tire of seeing Canadians on the podium during Olympic Games action.