Ontario seeks federal support for evacuations as wildfires devastate remote Canadian towns

Ontario requested federal assistance to evacuate people from remote northern Canadian communities ravaged by wildfires on Thursday, as smoke brought poor air quality to Toronto and much of the Northeastern U.S.

Canada has more active wildfires than it had as of mid-July for the past two years and a larger area has burned compared to 2025. Most of the fires are in remote areas of the central provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario....