No one knows what caused Fort McMurray wildfire, so don’t point fingers
No one knows, of course, and nor does anyone know what caused the fire, either. But that hasn’t stopped too many people—on both sides of the ideological divide—from assigning blame.

TORONTO—A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
Robert Herrick, an American writer and essayist, said that. He was an interesting fellow—a novelist, a poet, a Harvard grad, a professor at MIT. Coincidentally, Herrick was also the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands for a time. He was appointed t...
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