Wildfires

The wildfire season of 2023 was like no other in Canada’s history. With roughly 18.5 million hectares of Canadian land burned, this year was the worst wildfire season ever recorded. It surpassed the previous record of 7.6 million…
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A strong smell of freshly-cut wood is in the air, as efforts to salvage some of the trees burned during the spring wildfires continue. “This wood, although it looks very charred, it’s only burned in a millimetre into the stick,”…
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Officials in the Northwest Territories are stressing that there is no date yet in terms of when residents will finally be able to return home amid the ongoing wildfires, but laid out a five-stage process that will be followed when…
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Around 40 soldiers from 41 Canadian Brigade Group in Calgary will be deployed early Monday morning to help fight fires in southern B.C. According to a Department of Defense release on Sunday afternoon, the brigade will be deployed…
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Wildfires have displaced residents and restricted travel in some areas across Canada this summer just as the country looks to revive tourism business after years of pandemic-related restrictions. It’s the latest climate-related…
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Six ’90s-era GMCs surround a large trailer in a Salmon Arm, B.C., parking lot. Cory Tomlin said it took two trips from his home near the Shuswap to get his beloved collection of pick-ups out of the fire zone, but they aren’t the…
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While wildfire season and evacuation alerts have become par for the course for many communities across Canada, for Indigenous people its far too frequent. “It’s a really disproportionate impact when Indigenous people only make up 5…
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North Shuswap resident Kyle Boppre offers a simple explanation when asked why he defied an evacuation order issued as a wildfire bore down on his neighbourhood. “It’s just, I guess, in my blood to fight,” he said. “We were able to…
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Hundreds of migrant workers are among those evacuated from farms threatened by the wildfires in British Columbia’s Interior, putting strain on already crowded housing units and raising concerns about unsafe working conditions amid…
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Firefighters battling a wildfire near the capital of the Northwest Territories shifted from defence to offence Monday after a weekend of cooler temperatures, favourable winds and some rain. “We’re in a position to move to direct…
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