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Kelowna, BC is now under a state of emergency. The Wildfire is burning through the area rapidly, helped by conditions that are bone dry. People are being evacuated. But how many is still an open question. For so many the wildfire was across the lake. But today the fire jumped the lake.

Most of the more than 45 thousand residents of the Northwest Territories have been evacuated. Wildfire Wildfire. ”Every day, for almost three weeks, you can’t see anything. All you see is smoke,” said one of the evacuees. Beatrice Bernhardt. She was speaking to the Globe and Mail, standing next to her knee-high luggage with a blue coat wrapped around the purse on her shoulder. She said she broke down in tears while waiting for the flight to board.

Defence Minister Bill Blair says he is prepared to order the Canadian Armed Forces to airlift residents out of Yellowknife as wildfires approach the capital of the Northwest Territories.

The head of the Maui Emergency Management Agency said he had no regrets about not deploying outdoor alert sirens as a warning to people on the island.

A day after making that statement, Administrator Herman Andaya resigned Thursday.

Former Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna on Twitter today says We need a mandatory climate science lesson for Premiers – and the economics of the clean transition. Otherwise Canadians pay the price. It’s absurd. But that’s where we’re at.

Ukrainian soldiers are not knocking on the doors of Moscow. But Ukrainian drones are. A Ukrainian drone hit Moscow’s financial center early today, said the news out of Russia. Drone strikes are escalating on the Russian capital. Many still say they can’t see Russia losing the war. But when Drones attack Moscow without resistance it does give the appearance that Ukraine certainly isn’t losing.

Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister is Melanie Joly. She says the federal government is brainstorming a “game plan” for how it would respond if the US takes a far-right shift after the next Presidential election, and we can read that as meaning Canada is planning for a possible return of Donald Trump to the White House.