Beyond Local

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is widely expected to pull the plug on his minority Liberal government later this month for an election in mid to late September.

“We’re entering a new territory with more fire activity in our future all over Canada… people who have been fighting fires for 30 to 40 years say they haven’t seen anything like it.”

Trees the farmers have been tending for up to seven years could now be damaged and seedlings for future crops have also been decimated because of the heat, said Sally Aitken, who teaches forestry at the University of British Columbia.

The backlog is creating overcrowding, he added, causing the animals to become aggressive, which isn't good for their health. If they can't be properly slaughtered and processed they will be euthanized instead, said David Duval, head of an association of pork producers.

“I don’t know if we’re going to see a heatwave of that magnitude and duration any time soon, but the expectation is as our climate changes, we are going to see more extreme heatwaves more often in summer time.”

"I'm very angry about what happened, I called for help and they killed my son," Marie-Mireille Bence, the victim's mother, said.

Woman, 26, from Peers, Alta., attacked in remote area northwest of Swan Hills.

It could be "mayhem" to go through a cycle of drought, wildfires, heavy rains, and drought again, said François-Nicolas Robinne, "because the pressure on the water resource would become so high that I can't even imagine what it would mean in terms of water supply for communities."

The new COVID-19 vaccine shipments come as Canada's top doctor warns that the country could be headed towards a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases if public health restrictions are lifted before vaccination rates pick up.

Wage and rent subsidies for businesses, and income support for workers out of a job or who need to take time off to care for family or stay home sick, will last until Oct. 23.