Senate committee report calls for better co-ordination of wildfire response

Senate committee report calls for national wildfire agency as fires become more ‘catastrophic’

Canada is the only country in the G7 that does not have a national agency responsible for wildfire response.

Senate committee report calls for better co-ordination of wildfire response

OTTAWA - Canada needs to create an office to co-ordinate responses to wildfire emergencies, says a Senate report.

Senate report warns wildfires pose growing threat to Canadian agriculture

Ottawa, Ont. (Rural Roots Canada) – A Senate committee is calling for urgent federal action to address Canada’s escalating wildfire crisis, warning that increasingly severe fire seasons are outpacing our ability to respond. In a report released Tuesday, the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry said three consecutive record-breaking wildfire seasons in 2023, 2024, and 2025 have demonstrated that climate change is accelerating fir…

Senate wildfire report flags NWT gaps, urges national fleet

A Senate committee wants a national firefighting fleet and Indigenous-led response. Its report sets out how Fort Good Hope felt left to fight its own 2024 fire. The post Senate wildfire report flags NWT gaps, urges national fleet first appeared on Cabin Radio.

B.C. wildfire catastrophes helped shape Senate report calling for new federal response