Time to wake up and smell the smoke: the planet is in a climate emergency

For all the damage this record wildfire season has done, it is striking how little it has shifted the political conversation about our approach to climate change.

Heavy smoke in Ottawa on June 30. One would think the scale of the disaster would prompt some shift in tone, or even a reset in terms of how we talk about climate change.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY EDITORIAL

July 24, 2023

At a Canadian-Australian business conference in Toronto last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thanked his counterparts for sending specialist firefighters to help combat Canada’s worst wildfire season on record.

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