Movie Gallery in the Crowsnest Pass

It as been recently implied to me that the Movie Gallery in the Crowsnest Pass is closing down due the actions of our local government, here is the real story. Could this perhaps be another example of the type of Miss Information circulated in the Pass for many, many years


Movie Gallery closing most of its stores in Canada

Edmonton and area stores liquidating assets

EDMONTON — Movie Gallery Canada is closing 131 of its video-rental stores and selling off $33 million of inventory, the companies handling the liquidation announced Friday.
"The at-home video rental market has become increasingly more challenging with the rise of strong competition from cable providers, Internet, kiosk operators and subscription-based mail-delivery services," said David Peress, president of Hudson Capital Partners.
The Movie Gallery chain has closed its U.S. stores and is shuttering the majority of its Canadian locations.
A Canadian store-closing liquidation sale is being handled by a joint-venture group including Hudson, Schottenstein Bernstein Corp. and Tiger Capital Group.
Starting today, everything in the closing stores will be sold at discount prices, including DVDs, Bluray movies, video games and store fixtures. The sale is expected to last six weeks.
There are 51 Movie Gallery and VHQ stores in Alberta, including two Edmonton locations at 2347 & 2349 Rabbit Hill Rd. and 18352 Lessard Rd. as well as stores in Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc and Stony Plain.Read more: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Movie+Gallery+closing+video+rental+stores/3143493/story.html#ixzz0sGk34khn

Miss Information in the Crowsnest Pass

Had a call today from a taxpayer, who was very upset (to say the least) that he could no longer change his oil on his car at home. He was told in one of our local coffee shops it was all the fault of Council and the new Community Standards Bylaw.
Well I asked him if he had read the bylaw, to my surprise the answer was no. So I asked him to take a look at the Municipal Website have a read, especially of Section 13 and give me a call back.
Available at http://www.town.crowsnestpass.ab.ca/
About two hours later he called me back, he told me the source of his information obviously either did not understand the bylaw or misled him. (Hard to believe).
I would ask everybody to have a read of the bylaw, the intent was never to take away the opportunity for people to do anything on there property it was to clean up the community, should not be that big of a deal 95% of our taxpayers all ready follow the standards laid out by the bylaw.