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Jul 22, 2026
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Canada’s aerial firefighting system is too slow, and front-line communities are paying the cost
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A CL415 water bomber performs at the Aero Gatineau Ottawa airshow in Gatineau in September, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Doyle
Canada’s aerial firefighting system is too slow, and front‑line communities are paying the cost
Published: July 22, 2026 11.06am EDT
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Recently, as hundreds of fires burned across Northern Ontario and smoke pushed Toronto’s air quality to among the worst on the planet, Canada’s minister of emergency management defended Ottawa’s response and said, in effect, that nothing went wrong.
In the same news cycle, Ontario’s minister of emergenc…
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