The “Big Five” Canadian banks include Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto Dominion Bank (TD Canada Trust), Bank of Nova Scotia, Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Are there other viable options?
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One of the last men out of Fort McMurray
– macleans.ca
Roy Powell of Fort McMurray arrives at the Bold Centre in Lac La Biche, AB after being evacuated from fires that have taken over northern Alberta on Wednesday, May 04, 2016 . (Photograph by Chris Bolin)The afternoon after an entire city of more than 80,000 people cleared out, Fort McMurray reeked of burnt pine, lacked any semblance of its normal urban cacophony, and other than some distant smoke clouds, the sky was pretty and blue.
It’s that last fact that Roy Powell clung to as he protested two RCMP officers’ order at his door to leave on Wednesday, nearly a full day after the rest of his trailer park, neighbourhood and city were evacuated.
He had seen fires destroying the Abasand area Tuesday night, knew there was a threat at another edge of his Timberlea neighbourhood, had been watching the TV news about his city’s epic disaster. But the 69-year-old oilsands retiree wasn’t worried. He wanted to stay put with his cat.
“Naw, because I was on the other side of the river from the fire,” Powell said about the fire that was in fact ravaging both sides of the Athabasca River’s banks…
