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SunDog wins bid for regional transit service
Business
SunDog wins bid for regional transit service
Peter Shokeir, Local Journalism Initiative, Jasper Fitzhugh 
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Regional service is intended to support wildfire-displaced Jasperites unable to live in the townsite Jasper council voted unanimously on Tuesday (June 3) to award the turnkey operation of a regional recovery transit service to SunDog Tours and Transportation Co. The new transit service will provide ...
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Jasper charges forward with transit facility
Community
Jasper charges forward with transit facility
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Request for Proposals will cost out e-bus ownership Jasper Transit is being propelled forward on the road to zero emissions. At their June 18 regular council meeting , municipal councillors narrowly passed a motion to build a $3.2 million transit fleet facility. At the same meeting, councillors auth...
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Mayor urges collaboration to repair “strained, misaligned” relationships
Alberta Politics
Mayor urges collaboration to repair “strained, misaligned” relationships
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Jasper’s mayor is pushing back on prevailing narratives that suggest the municipality’s transit system has been rushed, town capital costs are out of control and Jasper’s financial capacity is at its breaking point. As he does every spring, on May 8, Mayor Richard Ireland took the stage at the Jaspe...
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Council advances transit facility procurement
Community
Council advances transit facility procurement
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
The Municipality of Jasper is looking to build a home for public transit. The MOJ’s Tuesday, February 27 Committee of the Whole meeting saw councillors approve, by a 4-3 margin, a motion to direct administration to issue a request for proposals (RFP) to build Jasper’s first ever public transit fleet...
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Forget Bachelor drama, tune in to Transit talk!
Community
Forget Bachelor drama, tune in to Transit talk!
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
All of Jasper may have tuned into ABC’s The Bachelor Monday night, but I’m saving my screen time for an even juicier watch party. Even though I am DYING to see if true love blossoms in the Canadian Rockies and whether or not Bachelor Joey Graziadei’s polar plunge in Lac Beauvert will shrivel his cha...
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Parks requests transit service to Maligne Canyon
Local Government
Parks requests transit service to Maligne Canyon
Cameron Jackson 
Monday, February 12, 2024
Jasper Municipal C ouncil to consider expanding Jasper Transit Parks Canada wants Jasper Transit services to extend to Maligne Canyon. In a February 9 letter to the Municipality of Jasper, Jasper National Park Superintendent Alan Fehr said that Parks Canada is trying to encourage alternative modes o...
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Jasper council approves 10 per cent tax increase
Business
Jasper council approves 10 per cent tax increase
Bob Covey 
Thursday, December 21, 2023
Not all onboard with transit plan   Jasper municipal councillors have approved Jasper’s 2024 operating and capital budgets, but members of the local tourism bureau remain concerned for Jasper’s fiscal future.  After six marathon sessions to deliberate on what administration presented to them on Nove...
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Letter: If it drives the route of a school bus, and transports students like a school bus…
Community
Letter: If it drives the route of a school bus, and transports students like a school bus…
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Dear Editor, This year, our school children are riding a white bus that is not following provincially legislated school bus rules, because it is, according to the Municipality of Jasper, a public transit bus providing select ridership for a special school route. This new town school route and servic...
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Budget 2024: Councillors considering double digit percent increase to tax requisition
Business
Budget 2024: Councillors considering double digit percent increase to tax requisition
Bob Covey 
Friday, November 24, 2023
Administration requesting five new staff positions; utility rate plan paying off; paid parking generated $1M in 2023 Jasper councillors recommended supporting most of the proposed 2024 municipal budget that town administrators presented to them on Tuesday and Wednesday (Nov 21 and 22). The $36.4 mil...
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Driver not at fault in bus crash
Community
Driver not at fault in bus crash
Monday, November 20, 2023
The driver of a Jasper Transit bus that was involved in an accident was determined to not be at fault, investigators say. At approximately 3 p.m. on Sunday, October 29, a 24-passenger Ford SuperDuty transit bus crashed on Highway 16 eastbound approximately two kilometres from the Jasper townsite. Th...
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Safety features of “school bus” questioned by parents
Community
Safety features of “school bus” questioned by parents
Bob Covey 
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Local parents are questioning the safety features of Jasper’s special school transportation service. Jennifer Stolfa, a Jasper mom of three, wants to know why the vehicle which brings students to and from school each day doesn’t look like every other bus that has the same job description. When the s...
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Driver “doing okay” after Jasper Transit crash
News
Driver “doing okay” after Jasper Transit crash
Bob Covey 
Monday, October 30, 2023
The driver of a Jasper Transit bus involved in an accident was released from hospital after a short stay and is recovering. At approximately 3:20 p.m. on Sunday, October 29, a 24-passenger Ford SuperDuty bus crashed on Highway 16 eastbound, approximately two kilometres from the Jasper townsite. The ...
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Details from bid scores shed light on Jasper Transit RFP
Business
Details from bid scores shed light on Jasper Transit RFP
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
New details about the awarding of the Jasper Transit contract call into question information circulated in a widely-shared social media post by a local transportation company. The post, “An open letter to the Jasper community,” shared on SunDog’s Tour and Transportation Co.’s Facebook page , has mor...
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Linking turns, climate art and community
Arts & Culture
Linking turns, climate art and community
Bob Covey 
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Nature may look chaotic, but it is, in fact, very well organized. So says artist Dee McLean. “We mess with it at our peril,” she says. A scientific il...
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We will remember them: Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Day ceremonies
Community
We will remember them: Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Day ceremonies
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Jasperites turned out in the hundreds to observe Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Jasper Activity Centre on November 11. Captain (retired) Greg Key f...
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Two Jasper wildfire reports analyze key factors in rapid spread
Environment
Two Jasper wildfire reports analyze key factors in rapid spread
Peter Shokeir, freelance contributor 
Friday, October 31, 2025
Two new reports shed light on how the 2024 Jasper wildfire spread so quickly. The reports, which were commissioned by Parks Canada, also reaffirm the ...
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Students march to support strike-busted teachers
Alberta Politics
Students march to support strike-busted teachers
Bob Covey 
Thursday, October 30, 2025
For the second time in a month that has seen only four school days, Jasper students walked out of school in support of their teachers. After taking st...
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Jasperites inspired as Forever Canadian petition smashes threshold
Alberta Politics
Jasperites inspired as Forever Canadian petition smashes threshold
Bob Covey 
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Jasperites Janet Frechette and Pam Wilson were among dozens of Forever Canadian campaign supporters in Edmonton who witnessed "a historic victory" on ...
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Jasper’s new council sworn in
Community
Jasper’s new council sworn in
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Jasper's mayor and six councillors were officially sworn in on Friday, October 24 at the Lobstick Lodge's Skyline Lounge. Jasper's 2025 council includ...
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Linking turns, climate art and community
Arts & Culture
Linking turns, climate art and community
Bob Covey 
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Nature may look chaotic, but it is, in fact, very well organized. So says artist Dee McLean. “We mess with it at our peril,” she says. A scientific il...
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We will remember them: Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Day ceremonies
Community
We will remember them: Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Day ceremonies
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Jasperites turned out in the hundreds to observe Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Jasper Activity Centre on November 11. Captain (retired) Greg Key f...
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Linking turns, climate art and community
Arts & Culture
Linking turns, climate art and community
Bob Covey 
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Nature may look chaotic, but it is, in fact, very well organized. So says artist Dee McLean. “We mess with it at our peril,” she says. A scientific il...
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We will remember them: Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Day ceremonies
Community
We will remember them: Hundreds turn out for Remembrance Day ceremonies
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Jasperites turned out in the hundreds to observe Remembrance Day ceremonies at the Jasper Activity Centre on November 11. Captain (retired) Greg Key f...
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CWD: A Zombie Deer apocalypse?
Environment
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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