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Walking Through Fire: Vegetation
Environment
Walking Through Fire: Vegetation
Kirsten Schmitten 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Part 1: Pioneer species on a fire-affected landscape Driving into the park a month after the 2024 Jasper Wildfire, we braced ourselves for a charred-earth landscape. Emotions of loss, devastation, and trepidation followed us in. So when we passed vibrant patches of green grasses springing from newly...
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Six months after it burned, Jasper is being gaslit by the Alberta government
Alberta Politics
Six months after it burned, Jasper is being gaslit by the Alberta government
Bob Covey 
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
It’s been six months since Jasper was evacuated due to the threat of a massive wildfire roaring down the Athabasca Valley. On Friday, January 24, it will be exactly six months since thousands of Jasperites learned that their homes, businesses and everything in them burnt to the ground . And on Satur...
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Vancouver theatre production gives Jasper the stage
Arts & Culture
Vancouver theatre production gives Jasper the stage
Bob Covey 
Saturday, January 4, 2025
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...
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Ashes of a broken system: Reimagining Jasper’s tourism future, post-wildfire
Community
Ashes of a broken system: Reimagining Jasper’s tourism future, post-wildfire
Lindsey Gartner & Brooklyn Rushton 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Beneath surface-level discussions and debates around the Jasper wildfire lies a more complex reality. This fire is not just an isolated event, but part of a broader pattern linked to climate change—a result of a century of colonial land use practices and an economic system focused on extraction and ...
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Memories of 702 Turret: Eulogy for a Jasper home
Community
Memories of 702 Turret: Eulogy for a Jasper home
Margot Finley, guest contributor 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Margot Finley’s Uncle Charlie’s house was one of the more than 350 structures destroyed by the wildfire that swept through Jasper, Alberta on July 24, 2024.  But “structure” is a terribly empty word for what's gone, Margot writes. At a dinner last winter I learned that our waiter had spent time in J...
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Recipe for disaster: Politics and wildfire
Alberta Politics
Recipe for disaster: Politics and wildfire
Bob Covey 
Friday, October 11, 2024
Record dryness, extreme heat, high winds, and a lightning storm. This summer in Jasper National Park, all of the ingredients of a recipe for disaster were in place. Now, two and a half months after that disaster came to pass, another set of circumstances— misinformation, toxic politics and facts-sta...
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Emerging from the ashes: what nature can teach us about rebuilding
Community
Emerging from the ashes: what nature can teach us about rebuilding
Mark Bradley 
Monday, September 16, 2024
Upheaval and change One of the most successful TV shows of the past several years has been Succession, a darkly funny drama about an exceptionally dysfunctional family of rich “one percenters” and their competition to succeed the ailing father as CEO of a huge corporation. In ecology, the word succe...
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Three days in July
Community
Three days in July
David Harrap 
Friday, August 30, 2024
DISCLAIMER: Views, opinions and actions of Jasper Local contributors do not represent those of Jasper Local staff and/or publishers. Monday July 22 was another hot day. The day before was even hotter: at 38 degrees Celsius (100 F) Jasper was the hottest place in Alberta—excluding my apartment! (The ...
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Jasper Fire Brigade gets truckload of support from Freson Bros.
Community
Jasper Fire Brigade gets truckload of support from Freson Bros.
Bob Covey 
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Plus: Council endorses recommendation to hire 10 new firefighters to supplement exhausted brigade Freson Bros. have cooked up a mountain of support for the Jasper Volunteer Fire Brigade. Back in late July, just one day after JVFB members, together with other structural firefighters from neighbouring...
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Rain event a “gift” that will help eliminate dangerous firefighting work
News
Rain event a “gift” that will help eliminate dangerous firefighting work
Bob Covey 
Monday, August 26, 2024
More than 40 millimetres of rain over the weekend has helped wildland firefighters get a handle on the Jasper Wildfire Complex. The wet weather, which started on August 23 and continued throughout the next day, will speed up crews’ ability to extinguish deep, dangerous hot spots throughout key, acti...
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MOJ receives disaster recovery award
Local Government
MOJ receives disaster recovery award
Joel Baglole, guest contributor 
Friday, September 12, 2025
The Municipality of Jasper has received the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada’s (DRI Canada) Award of Excellence. The honours were bestowed on the mu...
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Alberta teachers announce strike notice
Alberta Politics
Alberta teachers announce strike notice
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Teachers will walk off the job October 6 unless they can come to contract terms with the provincial government. On Wedensday, September 10, Alberta Te...
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School board chair to pass the torch
Community
School board chair to pass the torch
Bob Covey 
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Long-serving Jasper school trustee Dale Karpluk will not run for re-election in October. Karpluk, who was first elected in 2017 and who for the last f...
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“Meltdown” exhibitors hope art appreciation trickles into climate action
Arts & Culture
“Meltdown” exhibitors hope art appreciation trickles into climate action
Peter Shokeir, Local Journalism Initiative 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Visitors to the Columbia Icefields have a new way to step into the world of glaciers. An interactive art installation featuring landscape photography,...
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Election 2025: Voting tools for residents
Local Government
Election 2025: Voting tools for residents
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Residents displaced by the 2024 wildfire can still participate in this October’s municipal election. And with voting booths opening in less than two m...
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Green thumbs and jam
Community
Green thumbs and jam
Su Young-Leslie 
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
A gardener and a publisher walk into a Farmers’ Market I sow seeds in potting soil. When we were chatting at the market, Jasper Local publisher Andrea...
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Rebut the Rebuttal: Do Mark Hall’s criticisms ‘bear’ up to scrutiny?
Alberta Politics
Rebut the Rebuttal: Do Mark Hall’s criticisms ‘bear’ up to scrutiny?
Mark Bradley 
Monday, September 1, 2025
Mark Hall’s reaction to my article on the newly legalized practice of hunting bears with dogs started with the statement that it ‘relies on emotional ...
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Robson Valley Mushroom Festival to spore no detail
Arts & Culture
Robson Valley Mushroom Festival to spore no detail
Georgia Ristivojevic 
Friday, August 29, 2025
Make room for mushrooms this September 26-28 in B.C.’s fertile Robson Valley. The Robson Valley Mushroom Festival , spore-headed by longtime Jasperite...
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MOJ receives disaster recovery award
Local Government
MOJ receives disaster recovery award
Joel Baglole, guest contributor 
Friday, September 12, 2025
The Municipality of Jasper has received the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada’s (DRI Canada) Award of Excellence. The honours were bestowed on the mu...
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Alberta teachers announce strike notice
Alberta Politics
Alberta teachers announce strike notice
Bob Covey 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Teachers will walk off the job October 6 unless they can come to contract terms with the provincial government. On Wedensday, September 10, Alberta Te...
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School board chair to pass the torch
Community
School board chair to pass the torch
Bob Covey 
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Long-serving Jasper school trustee Dale Karpluk will not run for re-election in October. Karpluk, who was first elected in 2017 and who for the last f...
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“Meltdown” exhibitors hope art appreciation trickles into climate action
Arts & Culture
“Meltdown” exhibitors hope art appreciation trickles into climate action
Peter Shokeir, Local Journalism Initiative 
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Visitors to the Columbia Icefields have a new way to step into the world of glaciers. An interactive art installation featuring landscape photography,...
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Alberta reimburses Valemount for Jasper Wildfire-incurred expenses
Community
Alberta reimburses Valemount for Jasper Wildfire-incurred expenses
Bob Covey 
Monday, September 15, 2025
After months of lobbying three different governments for reimbursed costs incurred while hosting Jasper wildfire evacuees, the Village of Valemount an...
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The garden’s gentle giants: Caring for and cooking with zucchini
Community
The garden’s gentle giants: Caring for and cooking with zucchini
Su Young-Leslie, Green Thumbs and Jam 
Monday, September 15, 2025
Zucchini, that Zeppelin wanna-be in your garden, can be utilized in a rich range of recipes I’ve spent some time in Rossland, B.C. After gold was disc...
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MOJ receives disaster recovery award
Local Government
MOJ receives disaster recovery award
Joel Baglole, guest contributor 
Friday, September 12, 2025
The Municipality of Jasper has received the Disaster Recovery Institute Canada’s (DRI Canada) Award of Excellence. The honours were bestowed on the mu...
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School board chair to pass the torch
Community
School board chair to pass the torch
Bob Covey 
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Long-serving Jasper school trustee Dale Karpluk will not run for re-election in October. Karpluk, who was first elected in 2017 and who for the last f...
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