“Mother Nature Hates You”

High School Football With The Maumelle Moccasins …

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A firefighter manages a controlled burn to help contain a larger fire near Falls Creek, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020. Canadian wildfire experts say Canada is very vulnerable to the kind of devastating wildfires ravaging Australia right now. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Rick Rycroft[/caption]PENTICTON — British Columbia is on fire (again), and Premier David Eby is at the airport awkwardly high-fiving hundreds of Mexican firefighters who’ve arrived to contain the blazes.

The province currently has 214 personnel from Mexico, 34 from Australia, and five from New Zealand supporting hundreds of provincial firefighters, with additional international resources expected in the coming days.

More than 70 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, collapsing and severely damaging buildings in major cities including Cali and Pereira.

The US and Colombian geological surveys reported that a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck at 7.34am local time (13.34 BST) on Monday, with its epicentre in the western department of Chocó. It was also felt in neighbouring Venezuela, which is still reeling from a deadly double earthquake on 24 June.

Just In ℹ️: Videos out of Columbia show the devastating power of the 7.4 magnitude earthquake as people gather in the streets to avoid falling debris:#columbia#earthquake pic.twitter.com/181dffBKkN

— Dr. Kiran J Patel (@kiranpatel1977) August 10, 2026

h/t Patti Jo

On July 20, Angus Reid released a poll titled “Wildfire fears burn hot, even as belief in climate change continues to decline.” Right from the get-go, they are conflating wildfires with climate change, something that not even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does.

Long-time climate policy analyst and prolific commentator, Roger Pielke, Jr., wrote “What the Media Won’t Tell You About…Wildfires.” In it, he states: “The IPCC has not detected or attributed fire occurrence or area burned to human-caused climate change.”

thousand kilometres from the infernos gorging on northern Ontario’s boreal forests, Erin O’Connor watched the sky above Canada’s biggest city turn an “almost post-apocalyptic” orange as it filled with light-scattering particles of soot and ash. Stepping outside the halls of Toronto General hospital, where air filters were keeping patients safe from the worst of the fumes, she was struck by a smell so strong it felt like standing by a campfire.

“It really hit you in the face as soon as you walked outside,” said O’Connor, who runs University Health Network’s emergency department and saw a rise in patients presenting with allergies and shortness of breath. “As the days progressed, it was like that everywhere. It seemed even inside you could smell that burning.”

A pair of hikers with an off-leash dog were charged after coming close to a well-known grizzly bear on a popular hiking trail in Banff National Park.

Parks Canada charged them after a social media video on TikTok generated several million views since being posted July 21. The video, recorded by a woman, shows a man with bear spray and a small off-leash dog running between the two of them as grizzly bear No. 142 walks toward them on the trail.

It sucks but it’s safer.

The latest incursion into American airspace is forest fire smoke from Canada. An invasion, according to President Trump. And the man with a tariff for every occasion does not disappoint

“We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air, the quality of which is dangerous, and totally unacceptable! I will call the Prime Minister,” promised Trump. “(…) This is Willful Negligence, and becoming a yearly occurrence, costing the United States Billions of Dollars, which cost of this pollution must of necessity be added to the TARIFFS Canada is currently paying.”

Ok. This is hilarious. pic.twitter.com/CvchsexLnc

— David Krayden (@DavidKrayden) July 19, 2026

With more than 100 million Canadians and Americans enduring some of the world’s worst air quality readings because of 800 wildfires burning across Canada, including a dangerous cluster of 200 in Ontario, how can public policy best protect us?

As smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires continues to spread across large parts of North America, bringing hazardous air to tens of millions of people, outdoor activities are being canceled, businesses disrupted and vulnerable residents are being kept indoors as officials warn the unhealthy conditions will likely persist.

Air quality alerts were issued across more than 20 US states as smoke from wildfires burning in south-central Canada, northern Ontario and parts of Minnesota drifted south. About 109 million Americans across the midwest, mid-Atlantic and north-east experienced unhealthy air this week.

"As president of fire chiefs, I want to begin by acknowledging the land of Anishiinabe and Algonquins"

Canada is beyond parody pic.twitter.com/Gr5h6tSz4O

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 18, 2026

Republican members of U.S. Congress are slamming Canada’s federal and provincial governments over what they claim is inaction in preventing the wildfires currently spreading smoke and poor air quality across much of the northeastern U.S., in addition to Central Canada.

The criticism comes in a sharply worded letter from four Michigan members of the House of Representatives, addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney.

The scenes outside the window of the train are breathtaking. A wall of flame engulfs the treeline just feet away from tracks.

“Y’all need to hurry up here, like, seriously,” says one of the crewmembers. “We’re encased in flames now.”

This is near Armstrong, Ontario.

When will the Canadian National Railway Company make a statement about this incident? pic.twitter.com/6bKJYugeR0

— Sol Mamakwa (@solmamakwa) July 14, 2026

h/t Patti Jo and patthedog