Wildfires cast a smoke cloud over Canada Summer Games for some N.W.T. athletes

Wildfires cast a smoke cloud over Canada Summer Games for some N.W.T. athletes

Beach volleyball matches were postponed on Tuesday and for part of the day on Wednesday after an evacuation alert was issued for Paradise, N.L., due to the fast-moving Paddy’s Pond fire. Matches resumed late Wednesday, with restrictions.

Canada Summer Games sailing back on course after evacuation alert forces pause in competition

It was touch and go for a couple of days at the Canada Summer Games sailing teams as an evacuation alert and regional state of emergency forced a pause in competition in the Long Pond area of Conception Bay South. But now the sailors are back on course. NTV’s Jodi Cooke reports.