■ Sports
/
Local sports■ News
/
Local News■ News
/
Local NewsWild Rose budget reaction
Posted 2 days
ago
By Hamish MacLean Canmore Leader Last week's federal budget announcement by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty was not one that held too many surprises. It did contain a large deficit, a minor increase in spending and a proposed plan to balance the books in five years.
[more]
■ News
/
Local News■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityCanine café welcomes dogs and masters
Posted 2 days
ago
By Pam Doyle Canmore Leader Now for something completely different; at least for Canmore. The owner of the new Canine Café, the first of its kind in the Bow Valley, welcomes both dogs and their masters to come in and have a cup of java, or a doggie ice cream, whatever their pleasure.
[more]
■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityCanmore rocks into fourth Idol
Posted 2 days
ago
By Pam Doyle Canmore Leader It takes a lot of courage to stand up in front of a crowd, and 21 amateur performers did just that on Saturday night at Canmore Idol at the Three Sisters Branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.
[more]
■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityThe Renegade Kid leaves town
Posted 2 days
ago
By Hamish MacLean Canmore Leader Canmore resident Seth Anderson is a songwriter that works under the seemingly contradictory maxim, "insecurity with an iron fist!" Yet in his songwriting, he's serious about it.
[more]
■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityIt’s all about the dogs
Posted 2 days
ago
I love cats. I have lived with some great cats. I'm living with a great cat now. But I'm sorry Bucket, I have forever been, and forever will be, a dog person.
[more]
■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityThe positive side of dirty laundry
Posted 2 days
ago
Canmore Leader Sean Krausert knows that mental illness too often flies under the radar, or is brushed aside, and that people don't like talking about it. He's gone through that himself.
[more]
■ Sports
/
Local sportsBack on track
Posted 2 days
ago
By Hamish MacLean Canmore Leader Last week, Cross Country Canada invited media to witness seven-time Paralympic medallist Brian McKeever lead the team of Canadian Para-Nordic athletes in their final training session at the Canmore Nordic Centre prior to leaving for the 2010 Paralympic Winter
[more]
■ Sports
/
Local sportsEagles win game one
Posted 2 days
ago
By Shawn Slaght Canmore Leader The Okotoks Oilers will no longer have home ice advantage in the second round of the playoffs as the Canmore Eagles picked up a 5-4 victory over the Oilers Sunday night in Okotoks.
[more]
■ Sports
/
Local sportsLoppet hits record numbers
Posted 2 days
ago
By Shawn Slaght Canmore Leader Just under 300 cross-country skiers converged on Lake Louise Sunday for the Calgary Ski Club's 38th annual Lake Louise Loppet. Along with the large turnout was record numbers in the jackrabbit category.
[more]
■ News
/
Local News■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityCanmore O.T. heading to Haiti to assist with disaster
Posted 8 days
ago
Heather Weaver has known that she wanted to work with people in developing countries since she was a teenager. The Canmore based occupational therapist is heading to Haiti next week to help with disaster relief programs there.
[more]
■ News
/
Local NewsNew ERS playground requires community support
Posted 8 days
ago
tudent council made the announcement at a school assembly Friday, Feb 26. One student councillor said, "Although Rainbow Park is a great playground, it's time to build a safer place to play.
[more]
■ News
/
Local News■ News
/
Local NewsLUB Rollout 2 numbers please planners
Posted 8 days
ago
"We were pleasantly surprised," Gary Buxton, manager of planning for the Town said of the turnout at the open house for the second rollout of proposed policies in the Land Use Bylaw review process as roughly 30 people turned out for the information session held at the same time Canada played Russia
[more]
■ Arts/Life
/
Community■ Arts/Life
/
CommunityCanadian Future Achievers Award a first at OLS
Posted 8 days
ago
A Canmore-born Morley girl recently was first awarded a first-of-its-kind award for Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Academy. Suzanne Twoyoungmen, 16, a Grade 10 student, is in her second year at OLS, the Stoney girl recently received the Canadian Future Achievers Award.
[more]