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Winter grit: Walking to where the waters are born
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
My last thought before falling asleep after a long, cold day on the trail was “heaven is a lasagna of sleeping bags.” At least that’s what my last thought was supposed to be. Instead, as I zipped myself into three layers of down-lined, thermal quilts, supported by two air mattresses in a finally-war...
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Arts and Culture
Marmot Derby: The original ski mountaineering race
Friday, March 16, 2018
Back in Jack Pugh’s day, there was no such thing as lycra or carbon fibre. Ski bindings tightened with lugs and cables, and after you climbed up a mountain with 215 cm wooden skis on your “bedroom slipper” lace-up boots, you wrapped your seal hide skins around your waist to descend. Jack will be 90 ...
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Dancing on the  tips of the earth: A Family Affair
Arts and Culture
Dancing on the tips of the earth: A Family Affair
Bob Covey 
Sunday, September 17, 2017
It started with Pyramid Mountain. And a two-dollar child seat on the back of my Rocky Mountain Blizzard. We’d been in Jasper for two months yet I hadn’t really noticed the mountain before. Then all of a sudden, as though the mountain had dropped from Heaven the previous night, I saw it for the first...
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Arts and Culture
MidnightGrace
Friday, July 28, 2017
She makes you want to shout: Young punker plugging into self confidence Amid the swirl of sound between open mic sets at the Jasper Legion, a young woman dressed in black leather pants and a skin tight Cramps t-shirt plugs her bass guitar into the amplifier. Some members of the audience are noticeab...
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Arts and Culture
Paddle forward to Canada’s past
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Athabasca River Brigade honours history, environment and cultural connections of Canada’s cross-continental waterway More than 170 adventurers have a new appreciation for the challenges—and connections—early settlers and fur traders would have experienced after a six day, 333 km trip on the Athabasc...
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Arts and Culture
Mountains of Relief momentum continues
Sunday, July 2, 2017
When Mountains of Relief set out to organize a musical event the Jasper Legion, they did so with two goals in mind. The first was to raise money for the development of a school in the community of Lisakhani, Nepal, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 2015. The second was to bring the community o...
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Arts and Culture
Jasper Wild pays tribute to park’s protectors
Thursday, June 15, 2017
George Mercer’s new novel puts the spotlight on Jasper National Park development // supplied “We’re kind of loving this park to death. Too many people in my opinion.” So says park warden John Haffcut in George Mercer’s newest novel, Jasper Wild , the third and latest instalment in Mercer’s Dyed in t...
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Building fire started by spontaneous combustion
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Building fire started by spontaneous combustion
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
A downtown commercial building fire that was contained quickly after being reported offers important fire-safety lessons. Oily rags not being disposed...
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Turning Eighty—La Fin Du Monde?
Hiking and Climbing
Turning Eighty—La Fin Du Monde?
David Harrap, guest contributor 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
God, I was tired. And we still had to hike out. The author on a Mount Christie expedition in 2005, around the same time he celebrated his 60th year. /...
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Sprucing-up simply with winter’s natural jewel tones
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Sprucing-up simply with winter’s natural jewel tones
Su Young-Leslie, Green Thumbs & Jam 
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Festive decorating that's fun and affordable It all started when it ended. Autumn’s rich jewel tones had faded, withered and dropped to the ground. Go...
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CWD: A Zombie Deer apocalypse?
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CWD: A Zombie Deer apocalypse?
Mark Bradley 
Sunday, November 9, 2025
Beware the ‘Fawn of the Dead’: a herd of skeletal, pock-marked deer limp menacingly towards their target, moaning, intent on a gory brain feast…grraaa...
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A century of outdoor skating in Jasper
Community
A century of outdoor skating in Jasper
John Wilmshurst, freelance contributor 
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Ice skating is physics. A narrow blade applying an exact pressure on the ice, enough to melt it quickly but briefly, lubricating the metal, allowing t...
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New calves mark caribou breeding centre’s progress
Environment
New calves mark caribou breeding centre’s progress
Peter Shokeir, freelance contributor 
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Seven caribou calves born in first year of breeding program The Caribou Conservation Breeding Centre has begun achieving tangible results with the bir...
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Letter: Referee shortage has wider implications
Community
Letter: Referee shortage has wider implications
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Dear Editor: Jasper is lucky to have a location that people, including hockey teams, are willing to flock to for the scenery and the mountain experien...
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Building fire started by spontaneous combustion
Business
Building fire started by spontaneous combustion
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
A downtown commercial building fire that was contained quickly after being reported offers important fire-safety lessons. Oily rags not being disposed...
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Turning Eighty—La Fin Du Monde?
Hiking and Climbing
Turning Eighty—La Fin Du Monde?
David Harrap, guest contributor 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
God, I was tired. And we still had to hike out. The author on a Mount Christie expedition in 2005, around the same time he celebrated his 60th year. /...
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Sprucing-up simply with winter’s natural jewel tones
Community
Sprucing-up simply with winter’s natural jewel tones
Su Young-Leslie, Green Thumbs & Jam 
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Festive decorating that's fun and affordable It all started when it ended. Autumn’s rich jewel tones had faded, withered and dropped to the ground. Go...
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Latest ›
Sprucing-up simply with winter’s natural jewel tones
Community
Sprucing-up simply with winter’s natural jewel tones
Su Young-Leslie, Green Thumbs & Jam 
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Festive decorating that's fun and affordable It all started when it ended. Autumn’s rich jewel tones had faded, withered and dropped to the ground. Go...
this is a test
Building fire started by spontaneous combustion
Business
Building fire started by spontaneous combustion
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
A downtown commercial building fire that was contained quickly after being reported offers important fire-safety lessons. Oily rags not being disposed...
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Turning Eighty—La Fin Du Monde?
Hiking and Climbing
Turning Eighty—La Fin Du Monde?
David Harrap, guest contributor 
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
God, I was tired. And we still had to hike out. The author on a Mount Christie expedition in 2005, around the same time he celebrated his 60th year. /...
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Muskrat love (Or: a rat by any other name…)
Environment
Muskrat love (Or: a rat by any other name…)
Mark Bradley 
Friday, November 21, 2025
I Smell a Rat! Let’s get one thing out of the way right now – muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus) are not rats. Muskrats and rats are both rodents, but musk...
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