#Canada #wildfires - Essential workers head back early to Yellowknife to be ready for everyone else

> Officials in #Yellowknife, as well as staff with the #NorthwestTerritories, are getting ready for the start of a mass migration home of #wildfire evacuees that’s still on track for Wednesday.

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/essential-workers-head-back-early-to-yellowknife-to-be-ready-for-everyone-else #CanadaWildfires

#Canada -
> Officials in #Yellowknife, as well as staff with the #NorthwestTerritories, are getting ready for the start of a mass migration home of #wildfire evacuees that’s still on track for Wednesday.

... workers in grocery stores, pharmacies, home-heating providers, and even some taxi drivers and daycare providers are on their way back to the city in advance of Sept. 6 — the date announced last week for the lifting of the evacuation order
https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2023/09/04/essential-workers-head-back-early-to-yellowknife-to-be-ready-for-everyone-else-2/ #NWT #CanadaWildfires

#Canada - First Nation, regional district in central B.C. Interior orders wildfire evacuations

> The area's Francois Lake Ferry was offering 24 hour shuttle service for emergency services and to assist with evacuation orders.

A B.C. Wildfire Service information officer said Sunday the weather in the area is improving, with reduced winds and a return to more seasonal temperatures. https://www.moosejawtoday.com/indigenous/first-nation-regional-district-in-central-bc-interior-orders-wildfire-evacuations-7491919 #wildfires #bcwildfires #canadawildfires #bc #britishcolumbia

Après le #feu « 344 », l’un des plus grands brasiers de l’été au #Québec, l’avenir obscurci de la #forêtboréale.
Plus de 6 068 feux se sont déclarés au #Canada depuis début le début de la saison. 1 063 sont encore actifs, dont 686 jugés hors de contrôle. Au total la barre des 16 millions d’hectares brûlés vient d’être franchie. La province du Québec a été la plus durement touchée, dans la région de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
#canadawildfires #LeMonde
@wildfirescience
https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2023/09/03/apres-le-feu-344-l-un-des-plus-grands-brasiers-de-l-ete-au-quebec-l-avenir-obscurci-de-la-foret-boreale_6187596_3244.html

Kanadas Inferno in Grafiken
Als wären alle deutschen Wälder verbrannt
Noch nie hat #Kanada so verheerende Waldbrände verzeichnet wie in diesem Sommer – und es brennt noch immer. Die Ursachen, die Schäden, die Folgen. #derSpiegel #waldbrand #canadawildfires @wildfirescience https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/kanada-so-verheerende-waldbraende-wie-nie-zuvor-a-5e97507c-48d7-4801-8107-db62068a44f0

Climate refugee Michael Nabert wrote about his wildfire evacuation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories:

"Virtually every major settlement in the NWT is under an evacuation order now, covering about 70% of the total population stretched over the territories’ >1.3 million square kilometres.

For the town of Kakisa, burned out telecommunications infrastructure meant that when the order came, no one received it."

https://www.lireo.com/wildfire-evacuation-from-yellowknife-northwest-territories/

#Yellowknife #WildfireEvacuation #CanadaWildfires

Tips on how to talk to someone experiencing a mental health crisis.

#MentalHealth #CanadaWildFires #Anxiety #ClimateCrisis

Fear, falsehoods and conspiracy theories ignite amid Canada’s wildfires | Lethbridge News Now

>... space lasers, arsonists and government plots to restrict people’s movement are some of the causes of the fires, according to fringe online circles. But despite being fringe, these theories are widely circulated and boosted by social media algorithms.
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2023/08/25/fear-falsehoods-and-conspiracy-theories-ignite-amid-canadas-wildfires/ #socialmedia #CanadaWildfires #wildfires #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming

“More than four-in-five Canadians who voted for the Liberal Party (82 per cent) or the New Democratic Party (NDP) (81 per cent) in the 2021 federal election say climate change is mostly caused by emissions,” Research Co. president Mario Canseco said in a press release.

“Only 47 per cent of Conservative Party voters feel the same way.”

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Canada #CanadaWildfires

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/3-in-5-canadians-attribute-climate-change-and-global-warming-to-human-activity-survey-1.6532257?cid=sm%3Atrueanthem%3A%7B%7Bcampaignname%7D%7D%3Atwitterpost%E2%80%8B&taid=64e706eeea2ca8000147cbea

Canadian wildfires led to spike in asthma ER visits, especially in the northeast

>The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published two studies Thursday about the health impacts of the smoke, which shrouded city skylines with an orange haze in late spring. A medical journal also released a study this week.
https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/canadian-wildfires-led-to-spike-in-asthma-er-visits-especially-in-the-northeast/article_2bc31c0c-42cf-11ee-a132-93c31103d71d.html #CanadaWildfires #wildfires #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Interesting observations of how social media has created single news sources for some people and how “old” technologies can be essential communication tools. https://theconversation.com/as-canadian-wildfires-rage-facebooks-news-ban-reveals-the-importance-of-radio-211966

#radio #preparedness #canadawildfires

#Climatechange made Eastern #Canadawildfires twice as likely, scientists say

https://ground.news/article/climate-made-quebec-fire-weather-twice-as-likely_f5cb6e

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blasted Facebook for "putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety" as wildfires rage in his country’s Northwest Territories and British Columbia.

https://flip.it/Ow0Evj

Here's more on the consequences of Meta's standoff with Canada's lawmakers:
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/110910945450323131

#Meta #CanadaWildfires

#Canada - Trudeau blasts Meta for blocking local news during wildfire evacuations

>"Instead of making sure that local journalists are fairly paid for keeping Canadians informed on things like wildfires, Facebook is blocking news from its sites," Trudeau added. "This is not the time for that."
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/08/21/canada-prime-minister-Justin-Trudeau-denounces-meta-news-blocks/8711692656433/ #JustinTrudeau #CanadaWildfires #wildfires #BC #BritishColumbia #BCWildfires #NWT #NWTWilidfires #Kelowna #Yellowknife #META

Global News BC: How does wildfire misinformation affect communities in N.W.T. and B.C.? https://globalnews.ca/news/9908441/wildfire-misinformation-chaos-northwest-territories-b-c/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #NorthwestTerritorieswildfires #Canadawildfires #yellowknifefire #N.W.Twildfires #B.C.wildfires #B.C.Wildfire #Kelownafires #Yellowknife #Canada

30,000 people now on evacuation order in BC alone. 36,000 more in BC are on alert. My sky 300km from the nearest big fire (#Kookipi) is heavy with smoke. Most of the evacuated are around #Kelowna and #WestKelowna. I've included the previous evac picture along with the new one so you can see how it has changed.
#BCWildfires #CanadianWildfires #CanadaWIldfires #WIldfire #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wildfires-shuswap-kelowna-august-20-1.6941821

Tough days ahead, but Yellowknife wildfire now not expected to reach city by end of weekend.

https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.6941538

#Yellowknife #CanadaWildfires

Article defending the flames of destruction and a legacy of inaction over-capitalized at the expense of the future: now the present.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-liberal-net-zero-scheme-heralds-dark-era-of-ever-expanding-government

#StitchedInkMedia #Politics #Science #Nature #Past #Inaction #Present #Action #Environment #Justice #Climate #reciprocity #Canada #CanadaWildfires #Wildfires #Legacy

#Canada - The latest news on the wildfires in British Columbia

>A state of emergency has been declared in #BritishColumbia, as threatening wildfires force thousands to evacuate from homes in the Okanagan in the southern Interior and elsewhere.

>Here are the latest developments on the B.C. wildfires (all times are PT): 6:44
https://www.moosejawtoday.com/environment-news/the-latest-news-on-the-wildfires-in-british-columbia-7424102 #BC #BCwildfires #CanadaWildfires #wildfires

The news is grim tonight #ClimateDiary and it is hard not to feel both saddened and angered by what we are doing to our planet, especially in the #CanadaWildfires . But, futile or not, I rescued a #toad this evening and that gives me a real contentment boost. #OneDayAtATime