By Robson Fletcher, CBC News, September 27, 2016 ‘How much more is possible, we don’t know,’ says Banff park manager after another busy summer Banff accommodations were nearly fully booked this summer as visitor numbers surged again, prompting Parks Canada to advise people planning trips for 2017 — when admission will be free — to book… Continue reading Canada's already booming mountain parks brace for 2017, when entry will be free
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Parks Canada focusing more on promotion than protection: report
By CTV News, Staff, July 11, 2016 A new report from Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is slamming Parks Canada for forsaking conservation in favour of cash. “What we’ve seen over the last little while is a real trend, a movement from the primary legislated purpose of Parks Canada to maintain the ecological integrity and… Continue reading Parks Canada focusing more on promotion than protection: report
Parks Canada juggles competing claims to Franklin shipwrecks
Source: Dean Beeby, CBC News, March 8, 2016 Discovery of HMS Erebus wreck in Arctic waters produced dazzling objects — and ownership claims Parks Canada has been in a tug of war with the government of Nunavut about who controls artifacts from the sunken Sir John Franklin ships in Arctic waters — and so far… Continue reading Parks Canada juggles competing claims to Franklin shipwrecks