71K views · 792 reactions | The town of Drayton Valley, home to some 7,000 people, and the surrounding Brazeau County were ordered to flee late Thursday night as one of dozens of wildfires across Alberta grew, threatening the community. As the same time, thousands in the province's northwest have fled to High Level, where Erin Chalmers joined Global News at 11 with a situation update. READ MORE: https://globalnews.ca/news/9675857/alberta-wildfires-may-2023/ | Global Edmonton | Facebook

360K views · 4.3K reactions |  CANADA IS BURNING AND THE SMOKE IS...

Hundreds of truckers rallied for Alberta’s beleaguered oil and gas industry on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018, forming a 22-km long convoy around Nisku and signalling to the rest of Canada that the province’s resource industry needs far more help. The massive convoy in the industrial area south of Edmonton created such extreme traffic delays that even federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer had to leave his car and walk to a town hall. Read more: https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/convoy-pi

Alberta oil and gas has created untold employment, opportunity, and prosperity for all Canadians. We need to stop Bill C-69 to prevent further serious damage to this industry, and all the social progress we've seen because of it. | Jason Kenney