Half of Jasper still without power on third day of fire-induced outage

Half of Jasper's residents were still without power midday Wednesday, more than 50 hours after a wildfire in Jasper National Park burned down 18 power poles that service the mountain town. In an 11 a.m. update, ATCO regional manager Amanda Mattern said "technical difficulties" troubled the company's plan to provide generator power to all residents by Tuesday evening. "Switching generators into a utility system is very complex and we anticipated these types of challenges. To safely transfer power