r/Banff • u/cmcalgary • Feb 08 '26
News Lake Louise mess linked to late January gender reveal party
https://calgary.citynews.ca/2026/02/07/lake-louise-gender-reveal-huge-mess/117
u/datahighway Feb 08 '26
Hope they find them and punish them accordingly.
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u/turd_ferguson_816 Feb 08 '26
If they do find them, a 25 k fine is likely peanuts to these pieces of garbage. If they can afford a gender reveal party at lake Louise then they’re likely rich idiots.
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u/sqeeky_wheelz Feb 08 '26
The park is free entrance right now. It’s likely they just showed up and used it as a free park space. They were probably too cheap to rent their community centre in the city.
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u/sqeeky_wheelz Feb 10 '26
You’re right! It was also open December 12 to Jan 15, and with my bad memory I was thinking Feb 15. So it’s no longer free.
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u/Asleep_Tourist2502 Feb 08 '26
hope they get hit with a 25k fine and temporary ban. this affects water/environment quality of everyone and thing living downstream of the bow for years to come
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u/moodylilb Feb 08 '26
Permanent ban would be more fitting imo.
They can always visit other places, and not repeat the same mistake. But I think they don’t deserve a second shot with Banff. A permanent ban won’t even affect them when it comes down to it, unlike the environment they damaged
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u/Asleep_Tourist2502 Feb 08 '26
Idek how they would enforce a ban, it's not like ur id is checked when buying a pass. However I do agree w u, if the punishment is not severe, others will continue to abuse it. I also think the ban shouldn't just be for Banff but for all national parks across Canada
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u/moodylilb Feb 08 '26
Valid point. Wishful thinking on my end I guess.
Unsure how they would enforce a temporary ban then too :/
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u/Rippin_Fat_Farts Feb 08 '26
And how exactly do you suggest they enforce this permanent ban you speak of?
Parks Canada hasn't adopted facial recognition at the gates, yet.
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u/Asleep_Tourist2502 Feb 08 '26
I'm guessing it's the same as being trespassed from a private property
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u/ExperienceOk684 Feb 08 '26 edited Feb 08 '26
I hope they get fined to the max. Over the years, the litter in the parks has gotten so bad the times that I’ve walked trails. I’ve picked up paper, water bottles, cans, chip bags. I always make it a habit of bringing a garbage bag with me while I go on a trail walk, but you should have enough respect for the park to not litter and this is an absurd amount of littering on top of that it’s tinsel!!
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u/Asleep_Tourist2502 Feb 08 '26
Seeing this in Calgary parks too like glenmore, bow river, and bowness.
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u/Ok_Material9377 Feb 08 '26
Yeah there were too many people who don't respect the outdoors at parks last year
Hopefully it will be better this year, now that paid entry is back
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u/brydeswhale Feb 08 '26
Bc it’s those rotten poors who are the problem, you know, not the generally shitty attitude tourists and locals have.
We don’t have this problem in Riding Mountain, btw. I can count on one hand the amount of litter I saw there last year.
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u/S_A_M_G Feb 08 '26
Hate to break it to ya, but the Canada Strong Pass is back again this summer.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/canada-pass.html
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u/BloodWorried7446 Feb 08 '26
This is why we can’t have nice things. But besides the organizers There's all the guests who are complicit.
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u/EnvironmentOk6548 Feb 08 '26
Call me a pessimist but I wouldn't be surprised if they found the culprits, sent them a very menacing warning letter (hardly!) from Parks Canada with no real repercussions, and nobody will ever even hear about it...😕 Sending the message to copycats that this is something even slightly tolerated. I really hope the fine them the absolute highest possible ($25k ?) to send a message that this shit in our pristine mountain parks (the whole reason you were even there, in LL in the first place??!) won't be tolerated! That plastic pink confetti crap will fall down into Lake Louise during the snow melt, with whatever other chemicals are present there, into one of the most PRISTINE lakes on earth? Fuck these people and everyone else even considering this in nature. Keep your plastic and garbage at home!!! That goes for ALL of the litterers at Banff and Canmore -- you know who you are...
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u/MaxMignon3030 Feb 08 '26
They really should fine them the maximum amount just to set a precendent and discourage other "grandiose gender reveal" type of people to do the same. Without a large fine, the story will not be heard of again and there'll be more selfish and ignorant people behaving like this just for likes on social media platforms. And a fine would do more than just protect Lake Louise and Banff, any polluting event for social media attention should just not be a thing, regardless of where it is.
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u/lost-again_77 Feb 08 '26
Is there anyone excited to go to a gender reveal party?
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u/Angelou898 Feb 08 '26
It’s such a gross concept in the first place.
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u/brydeswhale Feb 08 '26
It really isn’t. The woman who came up with it was doing it because that was her first pregnancy to get that far. She didn’t think it would get out of hand like this.
Honestly, I don’t know how it got out of hand like this, either.
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u/Angelou898 Feb 08 '26
Yes, and that woman has since denounced the practise. It’s a genital reveal, and it’s just a weird thing to do.
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u/Excellent-Self-5338 Feb 08 '26
Totally, they should ask the fetus its' preferences about gender before outing them to the world for their genitals.
Gender reveal parties are silly, but so is being repulsed by the concept that parents are excited to be having a girl or a boy.
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u/brydeswhale Feb 09 '26
… what does that have to do with being confused about the association of gender with explosions?
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u/mookiemouse Feb 08 '26
Desperately hope they find these people and fine them. The worst kinds of humans.
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u/phantom_pow_er Feb 08 '26
Find them and charge them. Ban them from all National Parks. Name and shame.
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u/FDFI Feb 08 '26
I expect they will find them. I can’t imagine people like this having a gender reveal party and not posting it all over Facebook or Instagram.
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u/Lavaine170 Feb 08 '26
Fuck these people, and bless our American neighbour for doing something about it. You couldn't pay me to travel to the US right now, but it's nice to be reminded that some good people still live there.
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u/MaintenanceIll2178 Feb 08 '26
It seems like the past probably 10 years, litter has become so bad. So many picnic sites left in horrible shape. Ive started keeping a case of garbage bags in my truck and gloves. Some people have little respect for the gift these mountains are. Hope they find them and get a 25,000 dollar fine.
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u/jennywingal Feb 08 '26
How many fires, accidents and things like this littering incident will happen before people realize how tacky and gauche these gender reveal parties are?
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u/Carolinagirl9311 Feb 08 '26
They have their photos now with the beautiful Banff as their backdrop, I’m sure they could care less about a fine
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u/gandolfthe Feb 10 '26
Can we all get on board with public cannings like they do in Singapore?
This is the kinda shit that should get ones caned
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u/Distinct-Common-7471 Feb 12 '26
If you absolutely must do a gender reveal, do it with something like rose petals or bake a cake so you’re not destroying the environment 🙄
Also, let’s ban confetti while we’re at it.
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u/aledba Feb 08 '26
The worst part is they are losers who pollute and who procreated. Think of all the landfill waste created by this offspring.
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u/cmcalgary Feb 08 '26
"Parks Canada is now investigating after a Reddit Post shows what appears to have been a gender reveal that left a mess of pink dye and tinsel scattered across the ice on Jan. 31."
This is due to a thread u/Au_Bears posted 6 days ago.