COVID-19

“They’re not doctors. I’m not going to endanger patients because they’ve given themselves power to tell me what I’m allowed to do and not do. If my option becomes practice medicine I can’t practice in good conscience or leave, I would have to leave.”

It is expected to be a busy Labour Day long weekend on Sept. 5-7

"I know this will be a very tough day to be saying goodbye to friends and colleagues we have helped to build this institution over decades with their incredible skills and talents. We are very sorry to be wishing them farewell, and I want to thank those of you who will be staying on with the Banff Centre for your compassion and understanding."

The Banff visitor information centre remains closed for in-person information and pass sales

“Coming to Banff National Park and some of our iconic spots will still look the same – the mountains are still the mountains and the beautiful places are still the beautiful places – just the way that we visit them is changing.”

“First and foremost, this is about public safety and trying to ensure we don’t get a spread of COVID in our community. But we need to understand we have businesses that are hanging on by thread and we need to do everything we can," said Mayor Karen Sorensen.

“We’re going to do full necropsies on these animals that we’ve euthanized to make sure it’s not some disease issue … but right now, we assume it’s starvation."

As Banff continues to follow provincial public health orders, random checkstops continue and July 1 Canada Day festivities, including the parade, are cancelled

Black Diamond's Andrew and Liam Dunning are spicing up social distancing with Credit Cooking after temporarily shutting down their family business.

Municipality will start to transition to more enforcement if people continue violating the province’s COVID-19 social-distancing rule