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The Jasper Local // ISSUE 199 // MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2021

EDITORIAL //

Local Vocal Right now, the face of progress in Jasper is a proposed high-density apartment complex that will push parking issues to the brink and house 144 prospective tenants in units so small that developers need special permission to build them.

The face of opposition to that proposal? Octogenarian Helen Schwarz.

Schwarz spent almost four decades advocating for the Arts in Jasper and she’s a long-time volunteer with the Ladies Hospital Auxiliary but never did she think she’d be on the front lines of a protest to local development.

The thing is, she’s practically all alone. Not in her opposition—she’s got 240 signatures (and counting) showing many Jasperites agree with her arguments—but outside of people signing their name on a piece of paper, she’s pretty much flying solo.

To be clear, it’s not development of housing that Schwarz disdains. She knows staff housing is needed. Rather, she’s frustrated by the way that this particular housing project has been ushered through—specifically, the granting of consequential variances.

And why shouldn’t she be upset? The way the proposal has come to see the light of day has been nebulous at best.

Here’s what I can glean: Parks Canada had a big parcel (GB, 801 Connaught Dr.) for the development of residential units, but after receiving no interest they reduced the asking price. Finally, with the help of some connected locals, a developer came along with an offer to build a high-density complex (i.e. many apartments to charge rent for). Parks Canada, citing the Jasper Community Housing Corporation’s 2017 call for more staff housing while setting aside the JCHC’s suggestion that such hoousing should be subsized (i.e. affordable), said it will consider the offer based on feedback from the community. The Planning and Development Advisory Committee, a group purportedly representing residents, looked at the proposal and said yes to the variances, despite saying no to a very similar parking variance request put forward by the JCHC itself a year previous.

Why did PDAC say no to one and not the other? How does Parks Canada justify breaking its own rules for apartments that will be decidedly for-profit? Why, if we need quality housing for low-income residents (and of course we do), can’t we do it in a way that gives better options for an already marginalized population (i.e. entrylevel workers, the majority of whom are new comers)?

Why is a huge, permanent complex on the south entrance of town the path we take?

Answers to these questions will only be forthcoming if enough people are asking for them.

Jasper, please don’t let Helen Schwarz fly solo. 

BOB COVEY // thejasperlocal@gmail.com

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Local senior wants apartment variances revoked She thinks if Parks Canada simply abided by its own rules these issues wouldn’t present.

240 and counting.

That’s how many signatures local senior Helen Schwarz has collected on her petition to revoke significant development variances on a proposed 144unit apartment complex on Jasper’s Connaught Drive.

“Can you imagine if we got 1,000?” she said. “They couldn’t ignore us then.”

Schwarz feels that the community was ignored—or at least inadequately consulted—when Parks Canada’s Planning and Development Advisory Committee (PDAC) recommended, and JNP Superintendent Alan Fehr subsequently approved, the granting of three variances on two proposed 72unit apartment buildings at 801 Connaught Drive.

With the variances, the buildings will be allowed to be over-height by 3.67 metres, include 34-less parking stalls than normally required and contain apartments which are 15 per cent smaller than prescribed in Jasper National Park’s Town of Jasper Land

“I’m just fighting the variances.

That’s all the petition is about,” she added.

// HELEN SCHWARZ ISN’T AGAINST STAFF HOUSING, JUST ILL-ADVISED VARIANCES. // BOB COVEY

Use Policy.

Schwarz herself lives on Connaught Drive. Every day since August she’s listened to the racket created by the Municipality of Jasper’s Connaught Utility Services construction project.

Every day she’s worried about the massive complex that will eventually tie into those services.

in front of her house (neither she nor her husband, who are well into their 80s, drive anymore).

And she certainly isn’t opposed to staff housing.

“I’m not trying to stop staff housing, we know we need that,” she said.

“I don’t think people realize what is coming across the street,” she said.

“When it’s built they’re going to be screaming bloody murder.”

What she is worried about is that the scale of the project will be a blight on Jasper’s community aesthetic and the cramped living conditions (the units are proposed at 76.38 metres-square) won’t be tenable for the buildings’ 144 occupants.

Schwarz isn’t put out that her view of the Athabasca Valley will be obscured.

She’s not even as ticked off as some of her neighbours that parking will be even more limited

“These are not conducive to comfortable living conditions and will result in overcrowding and a constant turnover of tenants,” her petition reads.

PDAC is an advisory committee. It has no authority or decision-making power. The board—whose current members include Jasperites Ken Kuzminski, Angela Lemire, John Gamblin, Margot Walker and Terry Lanigan— represents the community. Their role is to advise Parks Canada on local development issues and consider comments and feedback provided by the public.

When the variances were granted in June, Schwarz wondered why her feedback wasn’t considered. Now, with every signature she collects, she’s building a case that her concerns are widespread.

“I’ve got 200 plus signatures,” she said. “How can they discount that?”

BOB COVEY //

bob@thejasperlocal.com

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LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Jasper “blessed” by mix of councillors: CAO Freshly elected local officials face a steep learning curve as they are thrust into the public spotlight and tasked with enormous responsibility in a complex environment, but Jasper’s new municipal council is well-positioned to develop into an effective team, suggests the town’s CAO. Bill Given says that considering the mix of incumbents, new councillors with administrative experience and those who’ve served on previous terms, Jasper’s 2021 slate is set up for success.

“We’re blessed with a real good mix,” Given said. “I think each council member will spend their time trying to judge how they want to engage in council and what their personal approach will be.”

Councillors have hit the ground running. After the election results came in on October 18 and a Swearing-In ceremony on Friday, October 22, municipal council was already gathering on Monday for an all-day training session followed by an organizational meeting on Tuesday. Armed with thick orientation binders covering town policy and other core information, the group will soon take in budget requests from community groups before new councillors head to more coursework and councillor training sessions in Edmonton. That’s in addition to the external board work

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they’ve just recently signed up for.

“Over the course of the next month it’s non-stop,” Given said.

Budget comes to council in the third week of November, which leads into strategic planning early in the new year. Given said that’s when the group begins to set a direction for the community—with the caveat that they will be operating with the direction that the former council set at this time last year.

“In 2022 we’re setting the ground work,” Given said.

Before that foundational work is established, however, council has to reckon with at least one file turned over to them from the previous group: utility rebates. Administration is recommending council approve the establishment of a rebate program that will compensate businesses for

waste collection and recycling services that, because of pandemic-related shutdowns, they paid for but did not use. Administration is estimating the rebates will total approximately $90,000, to be allocated from the Covid Recovery Reserve.

Apart from that and a handful of other smaller items, it’s a new slate for Jasper. Given said it’s easy to forget the challenge ahead of councillors, who almost overnight have to figure out how to balance competing priorities in a highly-regulated, highly-complex environment. Municipal governance involves a high degree of technical knowledge in a variety of spheres and while councillors are not expected to possess that knowledge themselves, they will be expected to make decisions on things like construction and design, road maintenance, waste water treatment plant standards,

childcare best practices and everything in between.

“One of the biggest challenges is figuring out their approach to decision-making when confronted with an issue that may not be in an area of their expertise,” said Given, who himself spend 19 years as an elected official in Grande Prairie, including 10 as the city’s mayor.

That’s to say nothing of the fact that those decisions are all made in public—and held to even more scrutiny since the advent of the Zoom meeting.

“It’s a very high-pressure position to be in when making complex decisions of a large scale that have an impact on people’s lives and you have to do that in front of the cameras,” he said.

BOB COVEY // thejasperlocal@gmail.com

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LOCAL CONSERVATION

The evolving tech of caribou monitoring methods Advancements in monitoring technology have improved markedly since caribou were monitored by VHF (very high frequency) radio in Jasper National Park in the 1970s.

monitor day-to-day interactions; a GPS “fix” is sent out every nine hours on the six female caribou sporting neckwear in the Tonquin herd.

Back then, large, clunky radio collars were attached to a handful of animals in a herd. Using VHF receivers, researchers would hike into remote areas where caribou were known to live and hope “They’ve advanced to pick up a signal. The method told scientists if to the point where the animals were moving or not and—once they found the animals—if the females had reproduced. I can wake up in the morning and However, there wasn’t much else the radio collars see where a certain could provide. animal has been,” “There was certainly no specific habitat data or PING // Layla Neufeld tracking caribou via VHF radio which, although still useful for Neufeld said. caribou monitoring, is becoming outmoded by newer technologies.// MARK BRADLEY daily use data,” explained Layla Neufeld, one of That was Parks Canada’s caribou ecologists. particularly Parks Canada’s strongest monitoring tools.

In the early 2000s, to find out information about engaging this past summer, when one caribou was “At the lab they can really tell us who’s who,” how animals react to certain elements in their spending a lot of time near the Jasper SkyTram on Neufeld said. environment (predators, for example), as soon Whistlers Mountain. It was close enough to town as it became available, scientists were quick to Using DNA, scientists can calculate survival rates that Neufeld could glass it in her spotting scope. incorporate GPS technology into their monitoring. for calves, yearlings, sub adults and adults (more “We were able to see her, and confirm she had a GPS collars produce better habitat data than VHF than three years old). They can also get an idea of calf,” she said. “It was definitely the most exciting collars, but there were trade offs with the tech. how different herds mix—for example if a Brazeau part of my day.”

First off, the collars that were first available were member shows up in the Tonquin herd.

GPS can also help provide answers on why even bulkier than the VHF versions. Secondly, Taken together, the monitoring methods an animal may have died. In the old days, a they didn’t last as long—caribou fitted with VHF monitoring flight might turn up a stationary collar, contribute to the most important metric of all: collars can be tracked for years (even today, one but often when the scientists found a carcass, there adult female survival rates. As one of the most individual female has been wearing a VHF collar influential values that affects whether a population was no telling how long it had been there. for more than a decade). Finally, when GPS first increases or decreases, it is this number that has came out, the data was “stored on board,” meaning “Often you’d get there and it was just skin and moved the needle for action on protecting caribou, the scientists couldn’t actually access the data until bones,” Neufeld said. including a proposed $24 million breeding facility. a collar was dropped, usually up to two years later.

Now, if a collar doesn’t move for seven hours, the Jasper National Park’s understanding of Jasper’s “It was limiting,” Neufeld said. “It’s hard to record modern GPS collars send Neufeld a text message. threatened caribou populations will continue to or recall what conditions were like that long ago.”

“We can go in right away and look,” she says. grow as technological advancements in monitoring Today, however, GPS collars can send out real technology improve. Time will tell if the caribou’s That keen eye is also useful in a third way to time information to researchers like Neufeld. It’s chance of survival will also increase. monitor caribou populations. Scat collection, no longer store-on-board, meaning biologists can thanks to advancements in DNA analysis, is one of BOB COVEY // thejasperlocal@gmail.com

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STORY BY DAVID HARRAP// PHOTOS BY CHRIS KOO

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When the Pilgrims arrive at the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Trot they haven’t just hauled in the regular camping gear. They’ve brought grub . . . grub . . . and more grub.

We’re not talking back country meals—just add hot water, wait 10 minutes and eat directly from the pouch—that are more suited to a military campaign in the desert. We’re talking gourmet homemade items that would have Gordon Ramsay drooling. This is a feast that would beat any Jasper restaurant’s Thanksgiving menu—by about two hundred pounds. For that must be the weight of the grub—and booze—hauled in this year’s Turkey Trot. One Pilgrim brought so much food that he had to make two trips; Nina, Andre, Emily, of the mulled wine gang, trucked in twelve litres of wine, one litre of brandy and sixteen oranges.

It’s not an easy thing to transport cooked pies in your pack without them arriving smashed up ( like the biscuits my sisterin-law recently sent me from Australia).Yet the Pilgrims have perfected techniques to get grub to ground zero with hardly any damage to a pie crust, a dent to a Brussels sprout, a squashed Bailey’s-filled homemade chocolate, never mind red wine dribbling out the back of a pack like some paper-chase trail for others to follow. Everything arrives top notch, even if the odd Pilgrim is staggering and needs a belt of brandy to revive

of roasting. Then two hours of re a Gordon Ramsay recipe, with roas crushed tomatoes gravy. If Gordon where in hell do the Pilgrims cook say Heaven, by the taste of the feas

Dr Chris has had some bad luck on his outdoor escapades: at last year’s Turkey Trot he burnt his socks drying them; recently, on the appallingly wet West Coast Trail h melted and shrunk his boots doing the same; at the end of a climbing trip last year he put his camera on the roof of his car and drove away.

And now this.

We’ll have Allie’s roasted beets

Elaborate ploys are implemented to guarantee success with a

dish. Rather than chancing a frozen and flat topping, Kieren and Waverley brought up a battery-operated drill with whisk attachment to ensure billowy whipped cream for their apple, wild blueberry and raspberry, and cranberry pies. Laurens, serving sour dough waffles with Brie, tells Julia, “Sorry, love, but I’m sleeping with the starter tonight because it mustn’t freeze”. Ashley will do the honours—again—and soften a pound of butter for the turkey by sticking it next to her bra.

Saturday afternoon, everyone’s here. (Jacky, second only to Liam in number of TTs attended, will arrive tomorrow.) Tents are up. A start made on collecting wood. A huge log for a bench by the fire is rolled into place. Tarps are strung to keep out the weather that is slowly making the mountains disappear. Snow is coming. Grub is sorted. Emily is offering her chocolates, and Norma, Bruce, Emma and Jessa are on the scrounge hoping to get lucky.

The turkey, half-frozen, is resting. The chef and kitchen staff will finish the thawing job tomorrow with boiling water before preparing the bird for the flames. The chef will mix the softened butter with grated lemon rind, parsley and garlic, slide it under the breast skin, slice up onions, lace the turkey with bacon, then put the bird and onions in four baking trays and onto the fire for five hours

“This is a feast that wou beat any Jasper restaura Thanksgiving menu—by a two hundred pounds

with goat cheese; Jacky’s braised r and Heather’s smoked meats and corn; Jesse and Josie’s mashed yam Laurens and Julia’s green bean cas Ashley’s highbush cranberry sauc juniper berries and cloves; cornbr stuffings. . . . But no Dr Chris’s me

For three days Chris (former cont

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Baking Show) had slaved making classic French puff pastry for his pâté en croûte alsacien. Fabulous meat pies. Ten of them.

Made with pork, onions, herbs,spices “and a good slash of Alsatian Riesling, important for its signature flavour”. Chris had carefully transported the pies wrapped in foil trays and plastic bag. God, how we were looking forward to those pies.

Late Saturday afternoon, everyone relaxing, Chris goes to his tent . . . and discovers the dastardly crime. Mangled foil trays and ripped plastic, and not a meat pie to be seen between Banff and Jasper. Gone. The lot.

WHO ATE ALL THE PIES? (It sure wasn’t me; I’d have died just to try one)?

Round up the usual suspects: DOGS. Emma. Bruce.

Norma. Jessa. They’d have never appreciated that the pies were flavoured with Alsatian Riesling as they wolfed the lot down. They’d have been just as happy with Kibbles ‘nBits.

Was it a gang job? All four?

Emma and Bruce are rescue dogs from the mean streets of Northern Alberta. It could have been them. But I doubt it. Investigations indicate that Bruce had an alibi: he was tied up at the time. Emma has a delicate tummy, and explosive diarrhea would have been the smoking gun. Shivering Norma, waiting for her winter coat to come in, is too much of a lady to have had a hand in this dirty deed. As suggested by the picture, does she know who the villain is? Is her doggy intuition fingering the despicable culprit: that black lab skulking by in the background? ____________________________ DAVID HARRAP

// thejasperlocal@gmail.com

Jasper’s David Harrap is the author of the soon-to-be-published book Over The Mountains, Under The Stars. If you don’t have him on your list of pie-eating suspects, you might be, like a backcountry turkey, half frozen and half resting.

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LOCAL CELEBRITY

Podcast phenom dishes Real Talk on Jasper The first time Edmonton journalist and talk show host Ryan Jespersen came to Jasper, he had somewhat of an epiphany.

Despite growing up in Alberta and loving the mountains, it wasn’t until the mid-2000s that Jespo, as he’s known, finally bypassed Banff and made the trek to the Athabasca Valley. The way he tells it today, it was love at first sight.

“From the very first visit I just connected with it,” the Calgary native said. “I felt that Jasper was more representative than Banff of what I endeavoured to have my mountain experience bring out in me.”

Today, Jespersen is building on his Jasper mountain experience, thanks—in part, anyway—to his talk show’s fruitful relationship with Tourism Jasper. Real Talk, Jespersen’s podcast/live YouTube broadcast is only 11 months old, but as a result of the show’s willingness to engage in important conversations, its ability to book heavyhitting guests and Jespersen’s indisputable talent as a fearless, engaging and thoughtful broadcaster, Real Talk has rocketed into political and cultural relevance across the country. Just ask iconic CBC anchor Ian Hanomansing, who sang the show’s praises while he was a Real Talk guest on October 27.

“That was totally surreal,” Jespersen said.

“That meant a lot.”

A year ago, Jespersen couldn’t have imagined those kind of accolades being rained down on his nascent show. Neither

SPIRITED CONVERSATION // Edmonton broadcaster and talk show host Ryan Jespersen is making waves in the podcast world with Real Talk. His love for the Rockies has created a partnership with Tourism Jasper.// Supplied

would he have figured the show would be profitable after only its second month on air, or that they’d be upgrading their studio, or hiring more staff, or negotiating contracts for similar formats in other cities, as they’re doing now. After Jespersen was fired from the Corus radio network in what’s now widely regarded as a political hit job by an inf luential (former) Edmonton municipal councillor, Jespersen made a seamless pivot to the digital space, racking up audience members and advertisers as diverse as his guest list. It’s his commitment to the conversational grey areas and holding

space for nuance that not only informs his featured topics, but his approach to journalism in general.

“I describe myself as a talk show host but I think we do good journalism,” he says. “I think it’s a good thing if a host has strong opinions…but I want to ensure different perspectives are represented or at least respected on the show.”

Jespersen himself isn’t exactly easy to pigeonhole. He jokes that he “shoots left from the right wing,” a hockey reference that gets to the idea that his values are ...cont on pg. B6 sprinkled all over the

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Jespersen: Shooting left from the right wing traditional political spectrum. He might agree with a conservative position that governments should be business friendly, for example, but he’s not saying environmental standards should be compromised. A conventionally “leftwing” belief of his is that drugs should be legalized and governments need to follow the science and support supervised safe consumption sites.

“When it comes to issues, for me it’s less about politics and more about people. I’m always trying to think of who is impacted or affected by certain approaches to policy decisions,” he said.

Peter Mansbridge sticks out as special, simply because of the revered status Mansbridge held for Jespersen as a young broadcaster.

Additionally, he was transfixed by author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra and said painting the town red with Saturday Night Live comedian Kevin Nealon was “one of the greatest memories of my life” (perhaps right up there with “run-away nights at the Atha-B”). However, almost every week Jespersen has an interview with a guest that is significant to him.

As Jespo continues to surf the wave of cultural relevance and Canadians from coast to coast tune into the important discourse the Real Talk team is pushing forward, the father of a six-yearold and husband to fellow media personality Kari Skelton is looking forward to the next time he can get out to Jasper, where he can tap into his inner John Muir.

“You can get that fresh air and feel that sense of calm, even in the townsite,” he said. “I’m home when I return to the mountains.”

BOB COVEY // thejasperlocal@gmail.com

Which is why, long before it was legalized, Jespersen was pro-cannabis. When he revealed as much on-air this year he said he wanted to address and help remove the stigma attached to cannabis use.

Shaming those who use marijuana—for cancer therapy, to treat anxiety, or even for recreational use—interferes with people’s understanding of the product’s very real benefits, he said.

“It’s not for everybody but I know what it does for me, which is allow my brain to relax, to enter into a productive and creative space,” he said. “To be perceived as somewhat of a voice on the topic is something that is not lost on me.”

Neither is the privilege of interviewing the diverse roster of experts, inf luencers, celebrities, culture-makers and politicians throughout his career. Of all of the thousands of interviews he’s conducted, his recent conversation with retired news mogul

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