CRANBROOK, B.C. — Canadian federal, provincial and territorial forest ministers have signed on to a national strategy that they say aims to raise awareness...
CRANBROOK, B.C. — Canadian federal, provincial and territorial forest ministers have signed on to a national strategy that they say aims to raise awareness of wildfire risks across the country.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the targets mean Canadians will be able to hold their governments accountable for progress made over the coming years.The strategy says by 2025 all jurisdictions will "establish dedicated prevention and mitigation governance structures" and have targeted wildfire training across industries and communities.
"We recognize that the challenges are bigger than one government, agency or community can take on themselves. It requires a whole of society approach," Ralston said.Speaker Johnson appoints two Trump allies to a committee that handles classified intelligence Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stoked the flames of her own party’s implosion on Tuesday, calling her Republican colleagues “feckless” over their unwillingness to support her solo effort to impeach President Joe Biden. “Today, we should be voting to impeach Joe Biden, because of the invasion in the United States,” she said on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast. “Oh, but no! None of that is happening up here in Washington, D.C. because Republicans continually have their head up their ass.
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