Inside the ‘Americanization’ of Canada’s national parks: The decade-long battle over control of Banff and Jasper

THE HUB

What started as a plan to build a passenger train connecting Calgary to Banff has turned into something much bigger—and much stranger—involving an oil tycoon, a decade-long odyssey through Canada’s regulatory hurdles, an American tourism giant, and a deeper debate about who benefits from our national parks.