Alberta Insider: News you may have missed while watching the Oilers

Good morning – and happy game day.

Yes, there are lots of more important news stories out there.

Alberta, like much of Western Canada, is being hit with the now annual spate of wildfires churning through the tinder-dry forests in the north, forcing tens of thousands of people from Manitoba to British Columbia to flee their homes.

Premier Danielle Smith met with her provincial counterparts in Saskatchewan this week, where she continued her campaign to get a new pipeline built to tidewater.

And Alberta’s grid operator said it is going to limit the amount of electricity it will provide to new data centres, putting a real dent in the provincial government’s hopes of becoming a hub for the energy-hungry infrastructure ne

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