Vox Populi

Editor: Jason Kenney announces, “parents know best,” as he withdraws the 2021 draft curriculum from consideration. No, sorry. That’s what he said when passing legislation to allow schools to proliferate outside the public school system while being

Editor: COVID-19 variants have little regard for vaccine status. The daily counts tell us we are still at risk. No version of COVID-19 cares what the government says we can or cannot do. Eschewing a COVID-19 vaccine does not release you from social

Editor: The Parks Canada online survey initiated for cycling options on Highway 1A in 2022 in Banff National Park is flawed. I believe you have deliberately prevented respondents from choosing between all the possible closure options, like offering

Editor: In response to Gordon Stermanns letter in the Aug. 26 edition of the Outlook , what are credentials / history behind the Public Notice in the Outlook / specifically P.A.R.T. I am happy to provide some background and context to the notice.

Editor: I am in favour of closing the Bow Valley Parkway permanently. Four years ago, three of us had returned back to the Parkway from a hike to Ink Pots. We were about two kilometres north of Johnston Canyon and were 10 meters from the road when we

Editor: I detect more than a little whiff of sanctimony and moralizing in the letter “Intersection design will have longterm benefit for Canmore” in the August 19 issue of the Outlook. The intersection in question – known to many as “that #!*!!

Editor: Banff National Park – like all of Canada's national parks – is a source of grandeur and enjoyment, which is now being threatened by a proposal by Parks Canada regarding the Bow Valley Parkway.

Editor: In 2014, several Indigenous leaders and elders submitted a request to the chairperson of the Geographical Names Board of Canada to recognize and return the original name to the mountain, currently known as Tunnel Mountain. The original name of

Editor: I would like to thank all the cyclists who ring their bells when passing or shout out on your left or right and to those who ride on the wonderful bike paths the Town of Canmore has provided for them and not on the road beside the bike paths.

Editor: I am writing to you concerning a third-quarter page advertisement posted in last week’s Rocky Mountain Outlook on page 11 which, in a somewhat alarming tone, warned against closing the Bow Valley Parkway to vehicle traffic. While nothing in the