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Surge in visits leads to user fee for popular Kananaskis Country west of Calgary
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By The Canadian Press on April 27, 2021.
Tourists explore a resort in Kananaskis, Alta., Monday, April 25, 2016. Southern Albertans hoping to escape to the mountains in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic will soon have to pay for the privilege. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
KANANASKIS, Alta. – Albertans hoping to escape to a popular provincial recreation area in the Rockies during the COVID-19 pandemic may soon have to pay for the privilege.
Kananaskis Country, which is about 100 kilometres west of Calgary, has been flooded with visitors – particularly in the past year due to restrictions designed to limit the spread of the virus.
Winners to be announced virtually June 9 at a free online event.
After promising a full-fledged public consultation on his widely condemned plans to open up the Rockies to Australian miners, the premier has now told Albertans that the review won’t include anything that matters like water and land use. Coal mining will be the only subject.
Breaking promises and betraying Albertans appear to be constant themes of Kenney’s government. Its coal saga is a prime example.
In 2017, the aspiring premier vowed to “get the Alberta government out of the business of business. because when politicians are risking your money instead of their own, you might as well send them to the casino. I mean, they have no incentive to get it right.”
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On Thursday morning, federal Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole unveiled his party’s climate policy, including a plan to price carbon. Twenty-four hours later, Calgary MP Ron Liepert sat down at home to answer the 20 emails he had already received from unhappy Conservative party members who said Mr. O’Toole reneged on his promise “to repeal Justin Trudeau’s Carbon Tax.”
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