Stoney Nakoda

LETTER: Tourism is back on track and the Alberta government wants more. They plan on doubling tourism dollars in the next five to 10 years, bringing in billions. The money sounds great, but where are you going to put the tourists.

Have you seen Mary Lauren Wesley?

“A single member of a party of three on the Aemmer Couloir of Mount Temple was hit by a sluff from the rock face above the couloir and knocked off his feet while cramponing.”

“I was at his memorial … It makes you realize that these are names, but they’re people and there’s family connected to these people, and there’s a history connected to these people. It’s pretty powerful.”

UPDATED: Cochrane RCMP have located and reported this person safe. 

“I played hockey and my kids played hockey – sports are huge, having access to a rink is huge. Discipline, self-esteem is very important, and I see the arena functioning that way again as helping to provide that in our community.”

We live in a time of multiple environmental crises: global warming, natural resource depletion, pollution and biodiversity loss. Far from being unrelated, these environmental disasters share the same root cause.

“It’s been a real concerted effort on the part of forestry and other ministries to battle with the pine beetle but getting help from Mother Nature with a few good cold snaps has helped, too.”

In a macro world, four-foot-six-inch wrestler Eric Bearspaw is making a colossal impact.

UPDATED: This person has been located safe, according to an RCMP news release.