During the last few days we saw the greatest fire-related evacuation in Albertan history unfold, it is a disaster of epic proportions. Shocking images flood social media along with so many heartbreaking stories that surely include only a fraction of the experience of upward of 88 000 fellow Albertans. I look on in disbelief and awe as this ocean of fire consumes everything in its path while it moves where it will. Alberta should be on its knees in the face of tough economic

I want to write you this letter because I have been reading some of your posts and I feel a response is in order. I have been reading because your experience is also the experience of a family member, which means that I no longer have the luxury of looking the other way. So I have been reading your posts and looking at you rather than crossing on the opposite side of the road. I am touched by the letter of a mother in my community to her son, he receives letters now instead o