Years after it was pitched, Canada is still waiting for a national disaster agency / City News / Toronto
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Amid one of Canada’s worst wildfire seasons, ongoing talks about establishing a national disaster agency have yet to yield concrete action. Despite mounting calls for a coordinated emergency response, federal discussions remain stalled over issues of structure and funding, leaving citizens worried about the country's preparedness for future calamities.
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Northern Cree from several reserves have been set up in 1,500 hotel rooms after evacuation centres in Winnipeg reached capacity
According to B.C. Wildfire Service, there have already been 49 wildfires within the Kamloops Fire Centre, which includes the Okanagan, since April 1st.
Exposure to wildfire smoke drifting across the country has been linked to increased risks of heart, lung and brain problems
One was charged in relation to a fire around La Ronge, which has forced 7,000 people to flee their homes
Until two weeks ago, Tyrone Caribou and his five children lived together in a house on a remote First Nation reserve in northern Manitoba. Then the scorching wildfires tearing through the Prairies blanketed the region in thick smoke and split his family across two provinces. Caribou and his…
Wildfires have forced between 10,000 and 15,000 people throughout Saskatchewan from their homes in recent days.
Two more communities in northern Alberta were forced to evacuate this week as wildfires continue to blaze in the province. As of Friday several communities remain under evacuation orders or alerts, while residents of Swan Hills were able to return home on Thursday. Experts using artificial…
With wildfires sweeping most provinces, especially Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, we need to reassess how this country deals with such emergencies. The immediate response is to call in the Canadian Armed Forces. They do a remarkable job of evacuating communities and providing logistical help…
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says two people have been charged with setting wildfires.
The wildfires across Manitoba are having both an immediate and long-term impact on wildlife, experts say.
A special air-quality statement was issued for the GTA and large swaths of Ontario
Officials say a trio of fires in northern Manitoba, including near the city of Flin Flon, have merged into a single massive fire just shy of 300 square kilometres in size.
The City of Flin Flon on social media says no structures have been lost in the city or in nearby Creighton, Sask
People in a town in northwestern Manitoba are being forced out of their homes after a wildfire put the community under a mandatory evacuation order on Friday.
The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency will hold a live update on the province's wildfire situation at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Prince Albert.
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the province is playing the waiting game as it looks to get thousands of wildfire evacuees into hotels.
The British Columbia Wildfire Service is warning that forecasted cold fronts today and Sunday in northeastern B.C. are expected to bring strong winds and potential "extreme fire behaviour" to the Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Fort Nelson fire zones.
La Société canadienne d’ophtalmologie exhorte la population à prendre soin de ses yeux alors que des incendies de forêt font rage au Manitoba et en Saskatchewan.
About 100 residents of Kelly Lake, northeast of Prince George near the Alberta border, have been ordered to evacuate due to the Kiskatinaw River wildfire.
An ongoing look at everything you need to know about wildfires in Alberta and Western Canada.
Les feux de forêt dans les Prairies entraînent une mauvaise qualité de l’air partout au Canada.
More than 18,000 people have been displaced due to the wildfires in Manitoba since last week, including 5,000 residents of Flin Flon.
We’ve all seen the faces. The exhausted, care-worn, frightened faces of people who have spent days breathing in the ash-filled smoke of wildfires, while praying the winds don’t change and […]
Presque tout le pays se retrouve vendredi sous un avertissement ou un bulletin météorologique spécial d’Environnement Canada concernant la qualité de l’air, alors que des incendies de forêt continuent de faire rage dans les Prairies.
'What I'm worried about is when we go back, I'm hoping that we still have a roof,' Graham Colomb, from Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, said
In 2023, as Canada suffered through its worst-ever wildfire season, the federal government was looking at creating a national disaster response agency.
OTTAWA — In 2023, as Canada suffered through its worst-ever wildfire season, the federal government was looking at creating a national disaster response agency. Two years later, the country is again facing another summer of wildfires. There is still no sign of such an agency, though governments are…
OTTAWA - In 2023, as Canada suffered through its worst-ever wildfire season, the federal government was looking at creating a national disaster response agency.
Where there’s smoke, the saying goes, there’s fire. But there isn’t necessarily information. Right now, we unfortunately have plenty of both smoke and fire — with the smoke obscuring the […]
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