3 d. ago Central Saskatchewan community reviews wildfire strategy after devastating summer

After a summer filled with fires burning across Saskatchewan, many communities were left wondering if better measures could be taken.

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8 d. ago Return to hot summer weather prompts warning about danger of new Alberta wildfires

With close to 50 wildfires still burning across Alberta and temperatures this weekend forecast to be about 10 C above normal people are being warned of the danger of new fires.

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1 week ago Western Canada tourism operators’ burned by another summer of wildfires

Another summer of wildfires means many tourism operators across western Canada are suffering from a significant drop in the number of visitors.

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1 week ago Students from remote Alberta community wrecked by wildfire to attend school elsewhere

EDMONTON — Some students from a remote, northern Alberta community will mark the first day of classes in a school that’s not their own on Tuesday after a menacing wildfire destroyed half of all structures in their hamlet this summer. Northland School Division says this school year is the second one in a row that […]

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1 week ago Tourism operators’ bottom line burned by another summer of wildfires

CALGARY — Fewer tourists are coming to Jasper, Alta., than usual this year, but it’s not for a lack of people eager to visit the picturesque Rocky Mountain town. Numbers are about as good as they can be, considering about one-fifth of the town’s overnight accommodations burned when a ferocious wildfire swept through last summer, […]

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3 w. ago Roughly 1,000 residents from Snow Lake, Man., set to return home after evacuation

A northern Manitoba town that has been evacuated twice this summer due to out-of-control wildfires has been given the go-ahead to return home later this week.

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