Jasperites have been extending their hands and hearts to Ukrainians. Now, in the wake of the Russian army’s invasion and the displacement of more than 3 million Ukrainian citizens, they are extending their homes. As of March 22, 14 Ukrainian refugees—with more in the works—have been offered places t...

Right now, the face of progress in Jasper is a proposed high-density apartment complex that will push parking issues to the brink and house 144 prospective tenants in units so small that developers need special permission to build them. The Municipality of Jasper has hired contractors to tie in util...

A blockade protesting the planned harvest of 3,500 hectares of old growth caribou habitat has been erected 75 kms south of Grande Cache near the Berland River. Last week, land defenders erected a rudimentary barrier to stop West Fraser Forest Product workers from accessing the Moon Creek forestry ro...

As a youngster, Guillaume Roy wanted to be mayor of the small town he grew up in. “I’ve always liked to talk politics, share ideas and opinions,” said Roy, who grew up in Mascouche, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal. The 28-year-old will have no shortage of opportunities to engage in political discourse....

A Grande Cache Metis organization is preparing to seek a prohibitory injunction to halt a Hinton-based logging company’s planned harvest of 3,500 hectares of critical caribou habitat. The Mountain Metis Nation Association, an umbrella organization of the Metis Nation of Alberta, says the Moon Creek ...

March 15, 2021 A proposal for a paid parking pilot project was seen as too tentative by Jasper municipal council and administration was sent back to the drawing board March 9. Newly minted CAO Bill Given admitted the scheme was conservative by design but suggested the plan would garner important dat...

Mayor Richard Ireland in the 2017 Tour of Hope. // JASPER LOCAL FILE PHOTO Richard Ireland will run for Mayor in Jasper again.  The only Mayor that the community has ever known filed his nomination papers yesterday, July 29.  The decision to offer his services as mayor for the seventh time was based...

UPDATE: On June 1, council passed second and third reading on a bylaw to set the tax ratio at 5:1 A move to reduce Jasper’s commercial/residential tax ratio has Jasper council split. Introduced during discussion of Jasper’s required tax rate bylaw for 2021, the idea of reducing the tax burden from n...

Most of us had a favourite teacher from school. I had a few. Mrs. Royer, in elementary school, was warm, accessible and caring. She treated all of her students equally, and I’ll never forget how hard she laughed at Grade 6 camp when my friend jumped out of his sleeping bag in his undies while she tr...

After whittling down yet another amended budget put forward by municipal administrators; after cutting and/or reallocating money for social and emergency services; and after once again postponing action on perilously underfunded municipal reserves, Jasper Municipal Council has passed a 2021 operatio...