Alberta reaches out to industry for economic advice

Alberta's left-leaning New Democratic Party (NDP) government said on Wednesday it was reaching out to prominent energy and other industry executives for advice to revamp the western Canadian province's struggling economy. Alberta, home to Canada's oil sands and the largest source of U.S. crude imports, has been hammered by tumbling global oil prices over the past 12 months that have led energy companies to lay off thousands of local workers.