🗒️ Statement from the Family: 🗒️
Parker is a loved son, brother and friend. Our family is heartbroken by his disappearance.
Since he went missing, our family has been living every parent's worst nightmare. Every hour that passes without knowing where he is or whether he is safe has been incredibly devastating for us.
We are asking everyone in the Calgary community to keep an eye out for Parker. Please check your neighbourhoods, parks, green spaces, yards, sheds, garages, RVs, vehicles, hot tubs and other places where he may have found shelter.
Parker experiences the world in his own way. He may not respond when his name is called, and he can become frightened when approached by people he does not know.
If you see Parker, please do not approach him. Give him space and call police immediately with his location while keeping him in view.
A single sighting, a piece of video footage, or one small detail could help find him. Our only wish right now is to know that he is safe and to bring him home.
The incredible support from our Calgary community has truly been overwhelming. To everyone who has searched, passed along his photo, provided information, shared video footage, or kept Parker in your thoughts, thank you. Knowing that so many wonderful people care and are tirelessly looking for our son has given us strength during the most difficult time of our lives.
Parker is deeply loved, and he is missed immensely. We just want our son home.
Information?
☎️ CPS: 403-266-1234
🛑 @stopcrimeyyc
📞 @MCSCanada: 1-800-661-6160 | https://t.co/JXtsTsf3fr
📲 MCSC rescu: https://t.co/VyYpWzXyRV
⚖ Case #: CA26318270 | 3916
🚨 More than 100 volunteers joined the search as crews continue working tirelessly to find a missing non-verbal 11-year-old boy in Calgary. ❤️🙏
The massive community response highlights just how urgently authorities are asking for the public's help. Every set of eyes matters, and even the smallest piece of information could make a difference.
Read the latest on the ongoing search and how you can help by staying informed. ⬇️
https://t.co/uESDmb70d6
We are releasing CCTV footage of Parker taken on Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 12:52 p.m. in the 5500 block of Travis Crescent N.E.
We are asking Calgarians to check their properties for signs of Parker. Every search matters & even places you've already looked should be checked a second time.
If you have a vehicle, truck, trailer or RV that hasn't been used recently, please open it & look inside. Thoroughly search garages, sheds, play structures, storage areas, utility rooms, cupboards, basements, under decks & other enclosed spaces where a child may seek shelter from the heat. Look carefully in narrow spaces between fences & hedges, behind lawn equipment & in any small area where a child could go unnoticed.
We also know Parker has a tendency to enter homes and lock doors behind him. We are asking residents to carefully check their homes, garages & sheds once more. Your attention could make all the difference.
📣 Anyone with information about his whereabouts, or who may have CCTV or dashcam footage of Parker, is asked to contact police by calling 403-266-1234 or by submitting it here: https://t.co/Z5ulkAdUSS
Information?
☎️ CPS: 403-266-1234
🛑 Calgary Crime Stoppers
📞 Missing Children Society of Canada: 1-800-661-6160
📲 MCSC rescu: https://t.co/VyYpWzXyRV
⚖ Case #: CA26318270 | 3916
Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.
**THIS MAN WILL BE PM ONE DAY!** 🇨🇦
Wab Kinew just fired back at those American Congress ambulance chasers hunting for cheap Instagram clicks instead of doing their actual jobs. While real heroes — including American firefighters — battle our wildfires and save lives, these politicians politicize tragedy for likes.
No place for that during a state of emergency. Canada stands strong, handles our forests, and helps our neighbours. Proud of leaders who put people first.
#StandWithCanada #WabKinew #TrueNorthStrong
Canada 🇨🇦 Just watched an incredible sight — 5 Canadian water bombers flying in perfect formation, dropping down one after another to scoop water from the lake. The pride I felt in that moment was overwhelming. 🇨🇦✈️💪
To every pilot, crew member, and firefighter out there battling these wildfires across our country: thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are true heroes doing dangerous, exhausting work to protect our communities.
Hoping for your complete safety and quick returns home to your families every single day. And to all Canadians affected by these fires — my thoughts are with you for safety, strength, and a swift recovery.
We stand together as a country. Stay strong Canada!
#CanadianPride #ThankYouHeroes #CanadianBakin
@brandilwells Yep. Actually the wild fires are all over North America, not only in Canada.
But no one wants to talk about it.
Source: https://t.co/qadlmlX3pU