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Endangered monarch butterflies
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PAOV — The “Champ des Monarques” is an essential habitat for endangered species like the monarch butterfly, located on federally-owned land near the Trudeau Airport in Montreal. Recently, thousands of milkweed shoots — a critical plant for the survival of monarch caterpillars — were razed. Petition starter AnneClaude is urging
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Urgent Appeal for Victims of the Massive Fire in Cuba
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Fire Relief Effort - Matanza, Cuba
Dear Friends in Solidarty with Cuba,
On Friday, August 5th, a major oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba, 65 miles East of Havana, was hit by lightning. Since then, an enormous fire has been raging. This tremendous explosion and hard-to-control fire have left
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Rogers Outage
Read MoreThe great Rogers outage was caused by the lack of telecom competition in Canada. Canadians paying the highest cell phone bill in the world? Also because of the big 3 monopoly.
Call on the Federal government to break up the Rogers, Bell, Telus telecom stranglehold now.
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[evoz] Urgent Appeal for Victims of the Massive Fire in Cuba
Read MoreFire Relief Effort - Matanza, Cuba
Dear Friends in Solidarty with Cuba,
On Friday, August 5th, a major oil storage facility in Matanzas, Cuba, 65 miles East of Havana, was hit by lightning. Since then, an enormous fire has been raging. This tremendous explosion and hard-to-control fire have left several people
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Connect with the global climate movement
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The terrain of our battle to stop the climate crisis is rapidly shifting. We’d like to invite you to take stock with us of where we are, what we’ve achieved, and most
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Dogwood News This Week: last hope for democracy?
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Accompaniment updates
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PBI-Guatemala accompanies Poqomchi defender Justino Xollim Tilom at sentencing hearing 
PBI-Colombia accompanies CAHUCOPANA at meeting with Canadian Embassy on the situation in northeastern Antioquia 
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Ontario daycares need a Safe Arrival program to help prevent hot car deaths
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:
Ontario daycares need a Safe Arrival program to help prevent hot car deaths 
Alicia W started this petition to Stephen Lecce, and it now
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It's too HOT
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They’re calling it a "heat apocalypse" – Europe is literally melting, with roads and runways turning into warped globs of sticky, hot tar. The UK just suffered through its hottest day in history. Arctic permafrost is melting 43x faster than before.
This
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Seal-killing bombs
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Over the last week an astonishing 59,000 SumOfUs members across the world have taken action to protect seals from Australia's salmon industry. But we're still short of our 100,000 signature goal.
Will you add your name A and help protect wild fur seals?
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24 days to make history
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PAOV,
Our campaign to elect a climate champion as BC NDP leader has begun. Our virtual call centre is up and running, and volunteers have started calling tens of thousands of Dogwood supporters across the province.
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Telus
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Canadians pay some of the highest internet and phone service fees in the world, and telecom companies regularly report hundreds of millions of dollars in profit. Despite this, Telus has submitted an application with the CRTC to charge a 1.5% credit card processing fee on all
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Heat apocalypse
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They’re calling it a "heat apocalypse" – Europe is literally melting, with roads and runways turning into warped globs of sticky, hot tar. The UK just suffered through its hottest day in history. Arctic permafrost is melting 43x faster than before.
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3 simple ways you can take action this summer
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$58 raise
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Would an extra $58 a month cover your increased cost of living this year? That’s what Ontario Premier Doug Ford is proposing for hundreds of thousands in the province who rely on the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP). A 5% raise in ODSP rates was introduced
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Nowhere is safe in the climate emergency
r1Read MoreFriends,
Hundreds of wildfires are raging across the country right now and Environment Canada has extended heat warnings for BC, Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Ontario1. Out-of-control wildfires have spread across thousands of hectares in Newfoundland and Labrador, leading officials
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A Deep Dive into Cullen's Final Report
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Dear Friend,
When the Final Report of the Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia was released after a secure media lock-up on June 15, 2022, it did not take long for us to determine that many recommendations were very concerning.
We’ve
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Ontario daycares need a Safe Arrival program to help prevent hot car deaths
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:
Ontario daycares need a Safe Arrival program to help prevent hot car deaths 
Alicia W started this petition to Stephen Lecce, and it now
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Accompaniment updates
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PBI-Kenya provides safety and security workshops in the lead up to the August 9 presidential election 
PBI-Colombia facilitates protection workshop with the Colombia-Europe-United States Coordination network 
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Dogwood News This Week: making history
Email Template r1Read More Your place for news and action Last week’s Peace and Unity Summit set events in motion that could transform B.C. politics in a good way. The gathering of Indigenous leaders, hosted by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs on Cas Yikh territory, offered a space for radical truth-telling about the… -
The bee-killing loophole
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Beekeepers are finding a carpet of dead bees where hives used to live – and it's about to get worse.
Bayer and Syngenta are using an “emergency” loophole in the law to try and dismantle the progress we've made on banning
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Unifor in turmoil + The Return of Class Struggle
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Three-year-old being deported
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Fatumah is a single mother who fled Uganda four years ago. She came to Canada and applied for refugee status, fearing persecution in Uganda. Her claim was denied and now she and her three-year-old daughter Ilham, who is a Canadian citizen, are scheduled to be deported
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Carpet of dead bees
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Beekeepers are finding a carpet of dead bees where hives used to live – and it's about to get worse.
Bayer and Syngenta are using an “emergency” loophole in the law to try and dismantle the progress we've made on banning neonics in Europe
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[Sjsall] The 2022 Victoria Forum is approaching! Regist
Read MoreThe 2022 Victoria Forum is approaching! Register now for “Bridging Divides: Turf, Truth and Trust”
In 2020, the Victoria Forum brought together 1,500 participants from 93 countries to tackle diverse global challenges and make an impact on how we move forward. With so much ground covered in 2020, we are
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Octopus farms
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Several countries have plans to begin commercial octopus farming within the next year. Farming carnivorous animals like octopuses places even more strain on the oceans because it means taking another species out of the ocean to feed them. There is no reliably humane way to slaughter
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Were choosing a new name - help!
Read MoreA, it’s time for a change and we want you to be part of it.
Click here to help choose SumOfUs’s new name!
When SumOfUs was founded 11 years ago, we were a small corporate accountability group mostly campaigning in the US. But over the years, we’ve grown to be
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PayPal
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PayPal will not serve Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Yet PayPal serves Israelis living in the illegal settlements in the very same locations.
So far, over 200,000 SumOfUs members have signed the petition calling on PayPal to end this blatant discrimination. The Incredible Hulk
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Accompaniment updates
Accompaniment updates r1Read MorePBI-Canada attends advocacy planning meeting in Brussels with PBI projects and country groups
PBI-Honduras observes symposium on “Sexual diversity: challenges and progress towards equality” 
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CRTC Open Up Canada to Competition for Bell & Rogers
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:
CRTC Open Up Canada to Competition for Bell & Rogers 
Nicole Goodmurphy-McCallum started this petition, and it now has 22,344 signatures
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4x worse the Exxon Valdez
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A decaying oil tanker off the coast of Yemen could spew a MILLION barrels of oil into the Red Sea. That’s four times the oil spilled by Exxon Valdez!
It’s a ticking time bomb that could be
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Apply to attend the Community Wind Skills Programs hosted by Iron & Earth in partnership with Maskwacis Cultural College!
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Paov,
Iron & Earth worked with Desmond Bull from the Louis Bull Tribe to develop two community-based rapid upskilling programs for fossil fuel industry and Indigenous workers: a 10-day solar program and a 10-day wind energy program. These programs include five days of in-class work and five days
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BREAKING: Trudeau weighs deadline extension for Big Oil
r1Read MoreFriends,
The Trudeau government is poised to give Canada’s oil and gas industry an extra two years to meet the already-weak 2030 emissions reduction target they set for the sector.1
It’s infuriating. As we live through another summer of climate chaos, with
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Have you watched our recent panel yet?
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Dear Friend,
Did you get a chance to tune into our most recent panel – Privacy Rights in Canada? Watch our Livestream here.
We were proud to present you with a panel of compelling speakers – including BCCLA lawyers Mara Selanders and Meghan McDermott, as well as
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starting soon: Peace and Unity Summit
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The chiefs' welcome is starting at 9 a.m. Here's the link . - Kai
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It sounds like a bad dream, but it’s true. Calgary-based Enbridge is back in northern B.C., meeting with Indigenous...
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[evoz] Stand in Solidarity with Cuba
End the US Criminal Blockade Against Cuba!Stand in Solidarity with Cuba! 2pm Saturday, July 30 at the foot of Roger Ave. off QuadraRead More
Hi Friends,For the past year, our Victoria Friends of Cuba committee has staged events against the criminal U.S. blockade against Cuba on the last Saturday of each… -
[evoz] Stand in Solidarity with Cuba
End the US Criminal Blockade Against Cuba! Stand in Solidarity with Cuba! 2pm Saturday, July 30 at the foot of Roger Ave. off QuadraRead More
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Big Tech update
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I’m Vicky and I’m a campaign director with SumOfUs, and for the past year I’ve been coordinating our work to rein in the power of Big Tech companies.
The fight for a better, safer internet is a long-haul one. But there’s no doubt we’re making major progress – in the
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Last chance to let Minister Dix hear from you on seniors care
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Your voice deserves to be heard around seniors' care but you haven't signed up to call for Better Care For Seniors . You've already told us you want an end to for-profit long-term
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Endangered monarch butterflies
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — The “Champ des Monarques” is federally-owned land located near the Trudeau Airport in Montreal. It is an essential habitat for endangered species like the monarch butterfly. Recently, thousands of milkweed shoots — a plant vital to the survival of monarch caterpillars — were razed. Petition starter AnneClaude is
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Government-funded pharmacare
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Insulin can be the difference between life and death for those with diabetes, but many Canadians pay thousands of dollars every year for this life-saving medication. Petition starter Cullen lives with Type 1 diabetes and believes insulin should be available free of cost for all Canadians.
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Dogwood News This Week: peace & unity
Email Template r1Read More Your place for news and action Coastal GasLink isn’t the only pipeline planned through the Skeena river watershed. There are three more projects in the works, including Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission line.
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[Sjsall] Course offering this fall: What Does Social Justice Look Like to You?
Read MoreWhat Does Social Justice Look Like to You?
SJS400A is an incredible academic opportunity to deepen our understanding and analysis of some of the most important social justice issues of our day. This seminar explores history, theory, ethics, and activism on a wide range of diverse topics including:
- Ongoing colonialism
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Enbridge is back
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It sounds like a bad dream, but it’s true. Calgary-based Enbridge is back in northern B.C., meeting with Indigenous leaders, trying to build support for a massive fracked gas pipeline .
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Help us defend your privacy rights
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Dear Friend,
Are you fed up with the governments , corporations, and private entities being prioritized over people and our fundamental rights? We are too.
The RCMP has illegally spied on people in Canada. Your electronic devices may be vulnerable to searches at the border. Behind
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AXA is feeling the heat!
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The mobilisation against AXA keeps getting stronger and stronger!
In April, our partners protested outside AXA's AGM and held a short play imagining AXA announcing their divestment from Israeli apartheid! Watch the video here.
Shareholders are becoming more and more sensitive to the issue : inside the AGM, a shareholder
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Saving 1000-year-old BC trees
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — An ancient forest near Duncan Lake in the Kootenays is home to trees over 1,000 years old. At least one of them is estimated to be over 2,000 years old. Logging and road building is planned nearby, putting the entire area and its resident wildlife at
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We just launched something new
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It's been nearly a month since we organized the Day of Action to End Climate Delay. Hundreds of you joined us on June 29 to commemorate the lives lost in the 2021 Heat Dome, the largest mass casualty weather
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Horse euthanized at Stampede
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Last Thursday, a horse had to be euthanized at the Calgary Stampede after being injured in a chuckwagon race. This follows the deaths of six horses in 2019 in the same event. Petition starter Allison is calling for an end to chuckwagon racing at the Stampede.
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Privacy rights are human rights
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Dear Friend,
Do you feel powerless when you see yet another corporation using your personal data for profit? Reading through pages of terms and conditions, do you feel confused and frustrated, not knowing what hidden clauses you may have signed up for?
We see these
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Stop the CFIAs ban on bringing dogs
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV – this petition is taking off on Change.org, and we think you might be interested in adding your name. Sign now to help:
Stop the CFIA’s ban on bringing dogs for adoption into Canada 
Shana Albo started this petition to Marie-Claude Bibeau, and it now has 3,032
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London is burning
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The UK just experienced the hottest day ever in its history. Fires erupted...and London is still burning.
Despite our code red climate crisis, major polluters are ramping UP oil and gas production , and banks are INCREASING investment in
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State of BC Health - May 2022
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Your July 2022 monthly update from the
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An update on the Cambie appeal
Last week at the BC Court of Appeal a panel of three judges unanimously dismissed the appeal launched by Cambie Surgeries Corporation (CSC). The appeal was the
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Afghan refugees
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — The federal government is ending the Afghan immigration program that began shortly after Kandahar fell a year ago. Scarcely 40% of the promised 40,000 Afghan refugees have arrived in Canada, and many Afghan interpreters who worked with the Canadian military are still stuck in Afghanistan. Many
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Exemption ≠ Decriminalization
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The illicit drug poisoning crisis continues to exact a heavy toll. In British Columbia, the Coroners Service recorded more deaths from drug poisoning in 2021 than in any other year .
What is the government doing about the toxic drug supply? Read my latest
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[Sjsall] Save the date: Date: July 20th from 10 am PT/ 11 am MT
Read MoreFossil Fuels and Climate Breakdown: Issues of Power and Resistance
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PAOV, you could pick the next premier
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A handful of people will vote this fall to choose the next premier of B.C. That person will have two years to govern before the next election.
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Dogwood News This Week: doing the dirty work
Email Template r1Read More Your place for news and action For more than 160 years, the Crown has fought a war against the sovereign, independent nations that govern the lands where we live.
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Roe v. Wade reversal
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PAOV — President Biden signed an executive order late last week in an effort to curb the attack on access to abortion care in the United States by expanding access to emergency contraception and increasing protections for patient privacy. However, the executive order cannot force
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Calgary Stampede + dead horses
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — “The ‘tradition’ of injuring and killing horses needs to end now!” The 2022 Calgary Stampede kicks off today, and will feature dozens of rodeo events that put horses at risk of severe injury and death. Over 70 horses have died during the Stampede’s chuckwagon races, and
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[evoz] Cuban National Day of Rebellion Annual Event
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Hi Friends,Our Victoria Friends of Cuba organization will be holding our annual celebration and commemoration of Cuba’s National Day of Rebellion. This year will mark the 69th year since the first spark of the victory of the Cuban Revolution began.
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Amazon Prime Day
Email template | Change.orgr1Read More PAOV — Amazon’s annual Prime Day sales kicked off yesterday. Canadians across the country will scour Amazon for the best deals and some of those purchases will inevitably be returned. Instead of being resold, millions of dollars worth of products returned to Amazon are destroyed, even if they’re
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Paov, your last chance to take action
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Extreme heat is hitting us hard again this summer.
Wildfires have already burned more of the Northwest Territories than in all of 2021.1 The area burned in the Yukon so far is five times
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