Wildfires should be a big wake-up call for federal political action
If the hallways of West Block smelling like the world's most ominous campfire aren't enough to jolt parliamentarians into action, it's not clear what will be.
The smoke from the forest fires in northern Quebec and from just outside Ottawa blew into the National Capital Region last week, settling over the city and the surrounding area for days like an apocalyptic milky-grey haze. The smell of smoke hung over the capital for days. S...
