Oil patch woes: Amid downturn, Alberta rages at Canada’s Trudeau
December 19, 2019
Reuters WINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA – In 35 years of working in Alberta’s oil patch, home to the world’s third-largest crude reserves, Ray Mildenberger endured a volatile industry’s ups and downs without being laid off. That changed in October, when Mildenberger, 60, and five co-workers of an oil service company in Grande Prairie, Alberta, lost their jobs. Mildenberger turned to selling truck
