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Visitors to Banff will once again get the chance to take in the town’s historic downtown on foot this year, with the Banff Avenue pedestrianization project set to start at the end of the month.
After months of planning with administration, Banff council unanimously approved moving up the project’s start date from mid-June to April 30 to fully pedestrianize the town’s main thoroughfare.
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“My intent is not to create an attraction, this is about safety measures,” Banff Mayor Karen Sorenson said at a special meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Banff main drag to be declared a pedestrian zone, easing the way for sidewalk patios
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Online classes begin for many Calgary students amid rising COVID-19 rate Bowness High School in northwest Calgary on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Photo by Darren Makowichuk/Postmedia
Thousands of students in Calgary and in northern Alberta are shifting to online learning today because of rising COVID-19 infection rates.
Education Minister Adriana LaGrange said last week that Calgary students in grades 7 through 12 would make the move to remote classes. School divisions in Fort McMurray also announced Friday that students in those same grades would be learning from home.
LaGrange said soaring infection rates have put schools under “operational pressures,” sometimes resulting in severe staff shortages.
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