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...Season. Canada's Fairmont hotels - Chateau Lake Louise, Jasper Park Lodge, Banff Springs, Mont Tremblant and others - have a flurry of ski packages, with breakfast and daily lift tickets, starting at $239 per night. See the Fairmont's ski website for details...
...here longterm. But a part of me, I don?t know, maybe I?ll get a cabin up in Canada so when I?m older I can sit on the gold coast up in B.C. and look around. Or be up in the Rockies up there around Banff or something. I wouldn?t mind going back, being part of it again...
...every art has its technology. Painting is an ancient mud process. Welded-steel sculpture required the invention of the welding torch. Janet Cardiff's breakthrough work required--the Walkman. Ten years ago, while thinking about a new artwork, she was walking through a cemetery in the Canadian town of Banff, reading into a tape recorder the names she found on old gravestones. At one point, she rewound the tape, then replayed it to find where she had left off. That is how she first had the disorienting experience of hearing herself describe a walk while she was still...
Apparently, when wardens capture a bear that has been troubling tourists, they try to condition the bear against such behavior by setting off firecrackers and spraying the bear with pepper spray. While doing that, the wardens costume themselves as tourists, since bears in Banff National Park tend to stay away from wardens, whom they recognize by their uniforms...
Where we live in the summer, there are sometimes bears in the woods. Would it do me any good, while walking through the woods, to wear a Banff National Park warden's uniform? How would I go about obtaining a Banff National Park warden's uniform sufficiently authentic to fool a bear? And would it need to be delivered...