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Extreme fire weather is B.C.’s ‘new reality,’ this scientist says. That doesn’t make these blazes ‘normal’

The wildfire that tipped B.C. into a state of emergency this August was described as “a bomb going off” to Premier David Eby by a fire official. Flames from Bald Range, in the interior of the province ...
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Toronto renters are too hot. Whose job is it to keep them cool?

Beena Ruparelia does not need to check a thermometer to know when heat has settled into her northwest Toronto home. She can see it on her skin. “You see me sweating,” she says while waving a handheld ...
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‘You can’t fool the locals’: landowners push back on fracking in central Alberta

Assar Grinde is the kind of man whose calm is infectious, even as he rattles off an encyclopedic knowledge of facts about drought, water and the impacts of fracking on the region he calls home. A ...
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Experts say the same smoky air that causes risks to human health also impacts pets ...
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Inside LNG Canada’s black cloud: docs reveal B.C. regulator was warned about smoke before approvals

This investigation is a collaboration between The Narwhal and Point Source, a U.K.-based investigative journalism organization. LNG Canada told the BC Energy Regulator its Kitimat, B.C., gas export ...
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Wildfire smoke is bad for animals too — including your pets

While health officials urge people to stay indoors due to the smoke draping the Midwest, experts say we should remember the same polluted air affecting humans is also threatening animals. On July 16, ...