Is the writing already on the wall?

Large-scale wildfires can release vastly more carbon into the atmosphere than all industrial human sectors combined. As they did in 2023. Environment & Climate Change Canada.

Deaths associated with wildfire smoke up about 275% in Canada, new report says

CBC News

Smoke billows over Flin Flon, Manitoba - May, 2025. 

The Province of Manitoba issued a state of emergency due to 

the growing number of wildfires throughout the province. 

The City was temporariily evacuated.

(Sandra Yaworski)

Scientists find that health impacts of climate change have escalated in last decade. Story here.

Gen Z v. Canada: Youth climate lawsuit enters next round

Canada’s National Observer

Lawyers delivered the opening arguments Monday in a groundbreaking trial to determine whether the federal government is constitutionally required to reduce climate-wrecking carbon emissions. It is the first time such a lawsuit has gone to trial in Canada. Story here.

Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn

The Guardian.

People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary. Health issues, loneliness and poverty are exacerbating the toll. Story here. 

Did Climate Change Play a Role in the Disaster at CFB Wainwright This Fall? (Opinion)

by Larry Powell

It's been described as the worst tragedy involving Canadian forces personnel on home soil in peacetime. Four service members died and 39 were injured (19 critically) in a raging grass fire on the training range at CFB wainwright, southeast of Edmonton last Saturday. According to a military spokesperson, the fire, fuelled by 80k/hr winds, changed direction and overtook them, moving at an astonishing rate of about one kilometre in 30 seconds. 

A photographic comparison of Battle River
(north of Wainwright) on June 6 (left) and September 23 (right), 2026.

Wainwright and the surrounding Municipal District have faced dry conditions this year. Two watersheds there have remained under water shortage advisories due to low flow conditions and declining soil moisture amid limited late-summer rainfall.

These conditions are not unlike ones that prevailed when wildfires destroyed much of Jasper, Slave Lake and Fort MacMurray, also in the province of Alberta in years past. 

But it's unlikely we'll ever hear either our Prime Minister or Alberta's Premier admit that manmade climate change has played a hand in this. They simply have too much invested in a petro-based future to ever admit it. 

To do so would surely be nothing short of a confession that disasters like this will only happen more often.

Alberta removes habitat protections for endangered greater sage grouse to support industrial development

 CBC News 

The Greater Sage Grouse

Fewer than 100 of 'the most endangered vertebrate species in

Canada' left in Alberta. Story here.

Exporting LNG Through Churchill Would Be A Climate Disaster

• Manitoba's Climate Action Team
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• Prime Minister Mark Carney and Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew are pushing to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Churchill by 2030. Story here.