Volunteer Lawyers Sought to Assist Slave Lake Community

www.pbla.ca/volunteer or call 403-541-4803 for more information.

Volunteer lawyers are being sought to help the Slave Lake community affected by the recent forest fire.

It is anticipated that information and advice will need to be provided in the following areas of law: insurance, tenancy, debt/credit, employment and family law. Legal assistance may be provided by telephone or videoconferencing. Please do not let distance stop you from volunteering.

Please consider volunteering for this worthwhile initiative through the Volunteer Lawyer Services program operated by Pro Bono Law Alberta. The support of the Alberta legal community is needed to help these individuals affected by the disaster.

The Law Society of Alberta is supporting a collaboration between several legal organizations including Pro Bono Law Alberta, Legal Aid Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association – Alberta Branch to assist the individuals of Slave Lake.

To assist, download the lawyer enrollment form at

Volunteer Lawyers Sought to Assist Slave Lake Community

Re-building Slave Lake's public library

I read in today's Edmonton Journal that the public library in Slave Lake was destroyed when wildfire burned down one-third of the town recently. Other libraries are collecting books to re-stock the library and are holding and cataloguing the books until the Slave Lake library is up and running again. Click here to read the story from the Journal.

I'm going to give them two copies of each of the four books I've written. The public libraries have always bought my books and made them available to readers, so it seems only fair to help them replace the ones they lost.

The attached photo appeared in the Edmonton Journal courtesy of CTV News Edmonton.