Rallying against the blaze: uniting Canadians to fight climate change

There is an urgent need to address climate change, the root cause of the wildfire crisis, across all jurisdictions.

An aerial view of the Donnie Creek Complex fire in northern British Columbia on May 27, 2023. We recently learned that more than 150 of last year’s blazes continue to burn in Alberta, B.C., and the Northwest Territories, write Independent Senator Rosa Galvez and Dr. Kathleen Ross. Photograph courtesy of the B.C. Wildfire Service

Opinion

BY ISG SENATOR ROSA GALVEZ, KATHLEEN ROSS

April 22, 2024

Canadians have at least 150 new reasons to unite against a common enemy: climate change. The effects of climate change created the setting that allowed more than 6,500 wildfires to burn across Canada last year, destroying 18.5 million h...

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