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As climate change reshapes our weather and our world, Canada's National Observer brings you stories from seven communities experiencing the country's unprecedented wildfires.
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Natasha Bulowski
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June 9th 2023
Ever since fighting “The Beast” — a massive system of wildfires that devastated Fort McMurray and swept through northern Alberta in 2016 — Ron Quintal says his “anxiety level goes from zero to 100 in a matter of minutes” at that telltale sign of smoke.
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“This is at least the third year where I've had to wear a respirator,” says Sayward, B.C., resident Shannon Briggs, whose children are growing up in the age of apocalyptic wildfires.
Rochelle Baker
News, Island Insider
| June 9th 2023
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As wildfire approached a neighbouring community, April Glaicar grabbed her camera. What she witnessed was “alarming.”
Tori Fitzpatrick
News
| June 9th 2023
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The fire prompted more than 16,000 people to be evacuated from their homes in Hammonds Plains, Upper Tantallon and Pockwock, which are suburban communities about 25 kilometres away from Halifax. It destroyed about 200 buildings, including 151 homes.
Cloe Logan
News
| June 9th 2023
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Over the past few days, apocalyptic skies have darkened Tony Wawatie's traditional territory around Barriere Lake. Hundreds of wildfires are scorching Quebec's Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, forcing most of the First Nation's roughly 800 members to evacuate.
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
News
| June 9th 2023
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During his 18 years living on the north shore of Centennial Lake, Mike Coates said he had never even heard of a forest fire nearby. Until Sunday.
Isaac Phan Nay
News
| June 9th 2023
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Fire has driven Marvin Herman’s family from their home in northwestern Saskatchewan twice in the last month.
Abdul Matin Sarfraz
News
| June 9th 2023
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Finally, perhaps more people will start talking about climate change, worrying about it, fearing it (as we should) and thinking about what to do about it, writes Linda Solomon Wood.
Linda Solomon Wood
Opinion, Climate Solutions Reporting
| June 9th 2023
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Scientists warn the world is on track for 2.7 C of heating with current action plans and this would mean two billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29 C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.
Damian Carrington
News
| June 9th 2023
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Investors are increasingly demanding that companies like Dollarama “level up” and demonstrate clearly how their plans align with the global effort to limit climate change.
Anthony Schein
Opinion
| June 9th 2023
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In May, Green Party Leader David Coon tabled the bill with “urgency,” he said, after Premier Blaine Higgs said he would pursue fracked gas development with or without First Nations' consent.
Cloe Logan
News
| June 8th 2023
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As the Alberta election results showed, the divide between Canada's urban and rural areas just keeps getting wider. If we care about national unity, we need to find a way to bridge that before it's too late, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
Max Fawcett
Opinion, Politics
| June 9th 2023
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From the archives
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Gerald Kutney
Opinion
| January 31st 2023
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