Jasper National Park wildlife officials have increased the urgency of their bear management strategy after a family of grizzlies swam into another popular Maligne Lake campground last weekend. On June 16, nine days after sniffing around Coronet Creek campsite on the south end of Maligne Lake, three ...

On Hockey Day in Canada, the Jasper U11 Bears celebrated Canada’s national winter sport by going on their longest road trip of the year, to the Land of Whispering Hills (according to the road sign). Sharing the same river as our little mountain town, Athabasca, Alberta is home to historic brick buil...

The Jasper Bears left town on Saturday morning bound for Edson, but that was just the start of a 1,250 km weekend road trip. Silly? Yes.But that’s life on the western edge of the North Eastern Alberta Hockey League . The Bears started slow in their first game in Edson, spotting the Sabres a goal jus...

Recently I’ve been watching Alone , a reality TV show where 10 people have to survive in the wilderness, by themselves, with no food or water and minimal gear. The last person standing is the winner. To give himself the best chance of winning, one of the participants (a Canadian) adopted an unusual ...