E1d ago
Daniel MacPhee 🔬🧬🧫🇨🇦
“It is a travesty that the major attractions in both Banff and Jasper Parks will be owned and managed by an American company whose primary goal is to maximize profits at the expense of Canadians and locally owned attractions,”
#Canada #Banff #LakeLouise #cdnpoli #NationalParks
https://thehub.ca/2026/03/19/who-controls-banff-inside-the-decade-long-battle-over-rail-gondolas-and-the-americanization-of-canadas-national-parks/
Inside the ‘Americanization’ of Canada’s national parks: The decade-long battle over control of Banff and Jasper

The Hub
Mar 22 at 8:38pmWeb
Show threadLukefromDC1d ago
@dmacphee Canada should simply take these parks back from US corporations. The same eminent domain that is used to hand over farmland to Enbridge and other pipeline bandits can also be used to disposess foreign corporations "owning" parks. Perhaps the billionaire class won't be so fond of eminent domain after a few such retakings?
Show threaddatum (n=1)1d ago

@dmacphee Interesting

the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project, which looked into the tourism markets in Banff and Jasper last year, and concluded that they operate under an “extreme monopoly.”

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“This is a company that makes over half of its revenues in our national parks,” Waterous said. “These guys salute to the Star-Spangled Banner.”

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“They had been increasing prices at close to 10 percent a year—roughly four times the rate of inflation—because of their pricing power,” Waterous said.

Show threadEric Bono1d ago

@dmacphee

Wilderness enshittified

https://jacobin.com/2026/03/skiing-corporate-consolidation-affordability-public-land

Corporate Consolidation Fuels the Decline of Skiing

Most ski resorts operate on vast swaths of land owned by the public. So why has skiing become such a cost-prohibitive pastime for most Americans?

Show threadMichael Vilain1d ago
@dmacphee I have to laugh every time I come across the Banff in my feed. My dad always liked to pronounce the 2nd f. So he always spoke it as Banf-f.