Fire Weather Index (FWI) Canadian FWI Map A numerical rating of fire intensity that combines ISI and BUI. It is suitable as a general index of fire danger throughout the forested areas of Canada.

A new study finds only 17 per cent of the world’s peatlands are in protected areas, a vast under-protection considering how critical they are to carbon storage, biodiversity and water regulation. But ...

Canada's musicians provide many new vacation ideas for U.S. travelers, recommending beloved destinations and sites that are unfamiliar to American vacationers.

Neskantaga First Nation in northwestern Ontario is marking the 30th anniversary of being under a boil-water advisory — the longest in Canada — by renewing calls to fix the crisis once and for all. As ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

We should then have only to include the North in our confederacy . . . and we should have such an empire for liberty as she ...

As Canada rushes to meet its goal of 5.8 million new homes by 2030, policy changes are urgently needed to avoid billions in ...

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"We use water [in buckets] to put out the fire because the pumps don't work. Our hydrants haven't been fixed in 40 years," volunteer firefighter Virginia Audy told CBC News. Tataskweyak, a Manitoba ...

Demolition is underway along First Street North in Steinbach, where Kingdom Home Building Inc. plans to construct a 16-unit apartment complex as well as a six-storey 100-unit apartment complex. The ...

The deal allowed Onyx to have a presence in the fire protection industry in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, which it didn’t have previously, Read says. Meanwhile, Bison received access to Onyx’s ...