What Canada should learn from Australia’s devastating fires

Seeing images of Canadian polar bears on icebergs, Pacific islands sinking, and ice flows melting is one thing; seeing your mates house burn down is another.

For Australians, climate change has gone from the theoretical to the tangible, writes former NDP MP Ian Waddell, pictured. Photograph courtesy of Ian Waddell

Opinion

BY IAN WADDELL

January 16, 2020

Having spent the first two weeks of 2020 in New South Wales, Australia, I’m getting a firsthand look at the devastating fires in Australia. Well, not exactly. I’m actually 1,000 kilometres from southern New South Wales, where the fires are raging. Judging by the e...

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