Today on the Rachel Parker Show, Rachel interviews Alberta Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen about stunning revelations at a Parliamentary committee hearing which revealed that the federal agency Parks Canada turned away contract firefighters who came to help while the historic village of Jasper burned.
Rachel asked the Alberta minister why that happened, and what the Alberta government plans to do to prevent it in the future.
Later on the show, Rachel reacts to the clip of the week.
Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.
