Opinion

And we’re off – again. To pretty much nobody’s surprise, Canadians are now being subjected to the longest election campaign in this country’s history. When Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked off the campaign headed for an Oct.

In the past, we’ve alluded to the alleged Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times” as being one that suggests exactly the opposite.

While the Outlook recently featured some letters to the editor complaining about MP Blake Richard’s newsletters, we’d like to add a complaint of our own about some of the Conservative’s terminology and spending habits.

If our shiny new NDP provincial government is looking for a project it can really sink its teeth into to show it’s more a party of the people than the PC operation it ousted, officials need look no further than Exshaw.

Not too long ago, in this very space, we suggested the only way Banff and Canmore, as municipalities, would ever get out in front of the affordable housing issue that continues to plague both towns is if they take it upon themselves.

There is literally no other municipality in Canada that has the complicated and, at times, confusing privilege that Banff does of having future development in the ultimate control of a federal government agency.

If one thing is clear after an epic four hour public hearing about disposing of municipal reserve lands for affordable housing, it is that no one in Canmore – or the Bow Valley for that matter – envies the job of mayor and council right now.

Already, it appears, our newly-elected provincial NDP government is finding that, as they say, “you can’t please all of the people, all of the time.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, a tipping point is the point at which a series of small changes or incidents becomes significant enough to cause a larger, more important change.

The Rocky Mountain Outlook would like to congratulate valley school teams that are making big noise and dominating in ‘other’ sports.