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May 9, 2026
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How we created a devastating fire debt
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OPINION
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We created a ‘fire debt’ by working at all costs to stop forests from burning
JESSE WINTER
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED MAY 9, 2026
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Jesse Winter is a reporter and photojournalist covering western Canada for The Globe and Mail’s B.C. bureau. He’s the author of Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze, from which this essay has been adapted.
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