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October 5, 2026Sign up
 
The Globe and Mail
 
Climate
 
 
 
 Nick Faris 
 
Good afternoon, and welcome to Globe Climate, a newsletter about climate change, environment and resources in Canada.

Experts and politicians endorse enacting a national strategy on wildfire hazard mapping, but the process would be far from simple.

But first, here is the most recent news. Let’s dive in.
 

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DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press
 
 
First pillar of new national ocean strategy ties into ‘protect-while-we-build approach’ to the pipeline and other projects, Carney says
 
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Calgary, Ottawa, Calgary
 
Consultations with Indigenous communities along the route are likely to be intense and contentious, with some First Nations leaders already voicing concerns
 
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Saint-Édouard-de-Lotbinière, Que.
 
Faced with global energy shortages, the hydropower-rich province weighs whether it needs to produce its own
 
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Aaron Hemens/The Globe and Mail
 
 
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Doug MacLeod could see the danger bearing down on him.
 

In early August, the forestry contractor was marking trails for heavy equipment to plow fire breaks on the mountainside above Faulder, a community near Summerland in British Columbia’s southern Okanagan valley.
 

He had tied only a single piece of flagging tape when he saw the Bald Range wildfire roaring through the forests toward him.