Municipal Affairs Minister: Southern Alberta

southern Alberta: The Canadian Forces mobilized 2,300 troops, including a number of helicopters and several light armoured vehicles, when vast swaths of southern Alberta were devastated by heavy flooding last week, according to Huffington Post. Alberta's municipal affairs minister told reporters Monday evening that much of the threat has passed and CALGARY - The number of soldiers helping out in flood-ravaged Alberta is about to be reduced. In hard-hit High River, south of Calgary, soldiers were credited with rescuing 600 people who were stranded on their rooftops when the Highwood River burst over its banks, trapping residents in their vehicles and their homes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.