7 d. ago Thousands head home in Flin Flon, Man., after wildfires weeks earlier forced them out

WINNIPEG — Buses carrying residents from the northern city of Flin Flon were being loaded up Wednesday morning, preparing to bring them back after a menacing wildfire forced thousands to flee weeks earlier. “Welcome home to everyone,” Deputy Mayor Alison Dallas-Funk said in a Facebook video Wednesday morning. “Can’t wait to have you back in […]

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7 d. ago Thousands set to return home after fires force Flin Flon, Man., residents out

Officials add disaster and recovery assistance will be available on site for returning residents, as will a food bank handing out perishable and non-perishable items.

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2 w. ago Wildfire evacuees continue returning home in Manitoba, Saskatchewan

Residents in Flin Flon, one of the largest communities evacuated, were still waiting for the fire threat to diminish before they could be allowed to return.

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2 w. ago Kiskatinaw River fire situations stabilize after weekend rainfall in B.C.

DAWSON CREEK — The BC Wildfire Service says the Kiskatinaw River fire in the province’s northeast has stabilized thanks to rain over the weekend. BC Wildfire Service fire behaviour analyst Neal McLoughlin says in a video post on Sunday that a low-pressure system had moved into the region, bringing cloudy skies and soaking rain, with […]

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2 w. ago Manitoba hotel owners should step up for wildfire evacuees, Kinew says

About 21,000 people in Manitoba have had to evacuate including from Flin Flon, Pimicikamak Cree Nation and other areas

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2 w. ago Thousands of Saskatchewan wildfire evacuees return home after weeks away

The biggest evacuation order in the province was lifted at 8 a.m. on Thursday, as the barriers into the tri-community of La Ronge, Air Ronge and Lac La Ronge were removed.

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3 w. ago Saskatchewan wildfires: Weekend rain offers reprieve, chance for some evacuees to go home

Some evacuees being told they can return home after weekend rain dampened fire activity in Saskatchewan.

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3 w. ago Experts use AI to map wildfire probability as more Northern Alberta communities forced to evacuate

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 intelligence (AI) to track the severity of wildfires in […]

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3 w. ago Manitoba plays the waiting game to get wildfire evacuees into hotels: Kinew

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.

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3 w. ago Manitoba plays the waiting game to get wildfire evacuees into hotels: Premier Wab Kinew

The City of Flin Flon on social media says no structures have been lost in the city or in nearby Creighton, Sask

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3 w. ago Toronto's unemployment rate is getting completely out of hand

Looking for a job in Toronto? Join the queue, because as of this month, the city's unemployment rate has surged to a jaw-dropping 8.8 per cent, up from 8.6 per cent just one month earlier.Statistics Canada's latest report on the labour force from coast to coast shows that the nation's largest city is faring the worst of any provincial capital, and of almost any Canadian city, period.Only the census metropolitan areas of Oshawa and Windsor had higher rates of joblessness, of a shocking 9.1 per cent and 10.8 per cent, respectively. (Windsor, as many know, is one of the top three cities in Canada that are most impacted by U.S. tariffs due to its substantial auto manufacturing sector.)The numbers in some rural locales, though, are even more dire.One chart from the government agency shows that an astounding 27.2 per cent of the working-age population in Northern Manitoba is now said to be unemployed, 13.4 per cent in Northern Saskatchewan, 13.1 per cent in...

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3 w. ago Manitoba residents fleeing scorching wildfires take refuge in Niagara Falls, Ont.

More than 18,000 people have been displaced due to the wildfires in Manitoba since last week, including 5,000 residents of Flin Flon.

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4 w. ago ‘They’re in turmoil’: Northern Manitoba leaders watching wildfires

Flin Flon's mayor says the evacuation of his community due to the threat of nearby wildfires feels like a family being ripped apart.

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