Tour companies and hotels in destinations popular with Chinese tourists — like Alberta's mountain parks and the Northwest Territories — are starting to see cancellations.

Parks Canada scientists, who have been monitoring songbird populations since 2007, found most are doing well in Banff, Jasper, Waterton Lakes, Yoho and Kootenay national parks.

Anywhere from 10 to 20 centimetres of snow is expected in the mountains and around Edmonton, while the temperature across the entire province is set to nosedive this week.

The avalanche risk in several Alberta mountain parks is considered high, or very dangerous, according to a warning from Parks Canada issued Friday.

A teenage girl from Vancouver was killed and a woman airlifted to an Edmonton hospital in life-threatening condition after their car collided with a minivan in Jasper National Park Sunday afternoon.

An Amber Alert was cancelled on Friday afternoon, hours after it was issued by police for a 14-month-old boy allegedly abducted in western Alberta by his father, who RCMP said is known to police and considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone heading to the mountains this weekend should prepare for possibly poor highway conditions after snowfall warnings were issued for both Banff and Jasper national parks.

Whistlers Campground in Jasper National Park will be closed for a year longer than originally planned, Parks Canada announced on Friday.

Parks Canada officials say the bear reports have become counterproductive.

A college student visiting from Los Angeles captured video of a bear running across a wooden foot bridge full of people, including children.