A Christmas Carol With a Twist will screen at the Jasper Legion A play about Christmas Past is helping strengthen Jasper’s future. For the last three years, former Jasperite Ryan Chabrel-Davis has been living in Vancouver, trying to break into the acting scene.  That hasn’t been easy, but even harde...

A drag show with an emotional, urgent mission rose from the ashes last week in Jasper. On November 22, when Jasper’s Michael Ormandy saw the wreckage from the Jasper wildfire for the first time since being evacuated four months earlier, he felt overwhelmed. But theExecutive Director of OUTJasper had...

To members of the Cree Nation , the buffalo has deep and significant spiritual meaning. “At a core level, the Cree people in Alberta were buffalo people,” says Jasper’s Matricia Bauer. “Buffalo was their food, their celebrations, their instruments, their tools, their way of life.” But even though he...

The Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge, together with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Travel Alberta, want to help bring the community back together. After re-opening their doors on October 1 , and on the heels of a giant clothing, toy and household item swap held at the main lodge on October 4 and 5, t...

Skateboarders are now in the final countdown ...it's mere weeks until they can begin carving-up the town’s new million-dollar skatepark in Commemoration Park.  “Look at the backdrop! Look at the scenery around it—the features, the open bowl concept,” Jesse Hale from New Line Skateparks told the Jasp...

It’s been a summer staple in Jasper for 34 years, but Parks Day 2024 is arguably the most thoughtfully-curated celebration of Jasper National Park yet.  The annual event, organized and presented by the non-profit organization Friends of Jasper National Park, is this July 19-21 leaning into the commu...

Naked Pictures by Rockies poet Mme Paulette Dubé is a curious peek into a curious mind during a curious time in the world.  Naked Pictures is available in Jasper and through At Bay Press. // Supplied Peering at the COVID pandemic from her various perches in Jasper’s wildlife-rich Douglas fir forests...

An azure ice cave at the toe of a glacier. A deep limestone canyon, carved by millennia of hydrological forces. A quartzite peak at the roof of the Rockies. These are the places where Sasha Galitzki is in her element. These are the spaces where Galitzki soars. Adventure aerialist Sasha Galitzky perf...

A short film festival featuring different Jasper newcomers’ stories will premiere at the Jasper Activity Centre June 11. The shorts, produced by filmmaker Mike Lang, showcase the settlement journeys of six individuals who have arrived in Jasper from around the globe. “They’re literally from all over...

Organizers, artists and partakers of the 2024 UpLift! Mural Festival are soaring on the thermals of another successful celebration of art in Jasper. The festival, now in its third year, has brought more vibrancy to walls around the community. And because Parks Canada has softened its stance on forma...