Ontario burns amid Ford’s failing response to climate change

In its environmentally backward way, the Ontario government has clearly failed to adjust to the mounting threats of global warming.
Doug Ford
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is now reluctantly confronting the disastrous consequences of rapidly worsening global warming, writes Les Whittington.

OTTAWA—On July 13, the small Ojibwa community of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation located in a wilderness-bound area 220 km north of Thunder Bay, Ont., was told that they were in no danger from a smouldering fire some distance away.

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