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For the first time in the city’s history, London city councillors have met with a local first nation’s council, the Oneida Nation of the Thames. The joint meeting, which took place at the Oneida Community Centre on Wednesday evening, is the first time both councils have met for an official …

The Ford government has unveiled new incentives for staff in its wildland forest firefighting program as Ontario braces for a potentially intense wildfire season. Minister of Natural Resources Graydon Smith announced $5 million to “attract, retain and recognize” forest firefighters ahead of the official start of the forest fire season …

As Ontario’s forest fire season drags on, a sense of mutiny is brewing on the front lines. Crews of firefighters, who have long warned of understaffing and inexperience, are burning out. Some are quitting. Others plan not to return and a few remaining veterans are on the brink of retirement. …

At a new ecological cemetery north of Montreal there are no gravestones or plaques. Instead, people locate burial sites with the help of a cellphone app. Cemetery Forêt de la Seconde Vie opened in Ste-Sophie, Que., on Aug. 7 with the goal of transforming a 232,000-square-metre ex-golf course into a dense …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A 72-year-old woman has died following a single-vehicle collision in Toronto’s Forest Hill neighbourhood on Wednesday evening, police say. Toronto police were called to the scene of a collision in the Spadina Road and Silverwood Avenue area, which is south of Eglinton …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Parts of eastern Ontario and cottage country to the north of Toronto were blanketed by air quality warnings Sunday as forest fires continue to burn in Quebec and Ontario. An air quality statement was issued by Environment Canada for large parts of …

Weather maps hang on the walls and precipitation reports flash across screens in the Winnipeg office where major decisions about Canada’s battle against an unprecedented wildfire season are made. Inside the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre headquarters in Manitoba’s capital, just east of the exact longitudinal centre of Canada, there …

Crews are continuing to fight hot spots of smoke and flames in the Paradise Lake area and the Bay d’Espoir Highway in central Newfoundland on Friday. (Darrell Roberts/CBC) Special air quality statements have lifted in areas affected by forest fires in central Newfoundland, as Premier Andrew Furey says the province is …

Smoke from a forest fire in central Newfoundland is shown in a Sunday, Aug.7, 2022 government handout photo. Smoke is continuing to play a key factor in the growth of both major fires. (Government of Newfoundland and Labrador/The Canadian Press) The Paradise Lake forest fire tearing through parts of central …

Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial forest fire duty officer is looking to the forecast for rain Tuesday, after a raging forest fire near Grand Falls-Windsor widened overnight by more than 50 per cent.  Jeff Motty said the size of the Paradise Lake fire, located in a forested area of central Newfoundland, is estimated …