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As Canada deals with wildfire problems, Canadian governments are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on more and better firefighting equipment, increased personnel, fire-tracking satellites and improving community readiness.

In 2021, Montreal’s air quality was degraded by forest fires burning thousands of kilometres away, a study shows.

This week, large areas of Ontario experienced severe flooding that caused widespread power outages, water damages and disruption. Severe rainfall events are not new, but they are becoming more frequent and costly due to human-caused climate change.

For the first time Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has drawn a clear link between heat waves and climate change using the 2024 June heat wave as a key data set.

Wilfires not only pose hazards to communities and wildlife with destruction of habits and infrastructure, but also affect public health, as well as impacting solar radiation and albedo feedbacks that link to global temperatures and meteorological cycles.

When the Bush Creek East wildfire roared like an engine over the hillside at the edge of his property last August, Karl Bischoff organized three dozen neighbors to fight off the blaze.

In Canada, our warming planet alters growing conditions, affects crop yields and shifts the types of crops that can be cultivated in different regions of the country.

Although Indigenous peoples only represent 5 per cent (1.8 million people) of Canada’s population, over 16 per cent of the people internally displaced in Canada in 2023 were Indigenous peoples living in reserves.