More people flee fires, destruction in northern Ontario as blazes rage across Canada

By Kathryn Mannie Another Ontario First Nation was razed by fire and more people fled their northern communities over the weekend as Prime Minister Mark Carney said more than 5,000 firefighters were battling blazes across the country. Carney said he visited federal workers in Ottawa on Sunday morning who are helping with wildfire response efforts in northwestern Ontario and other provinces. Extreme heat waves and dry conditions have made this year “one of the most intense wildfire seasons in Canadian history,” the prime minister said in a social media post. Nearly 1,000 wildfires are blazing f…