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Patrick
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AUG 24, 06:54 PM
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A look at the disastrous wildfires in Canada this year, from the perspective of Australian TV. The following is the description posted at YouTube...
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Aug 24, 2023 CANADA
Canada is in the grip of one of the worst forest fires in recorded history. In recent days, tens of thousands of people in British Columbia were evacuated, as the Canadian government deployed its armed forces to deal with the crisis.
Most residents of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories have also fled their homes. An area of almost 14 million hectares has been scorched by more than 6,000 separate wildfires burning all over the country since late April. Almost 5,000 thousand international firefighters have already been flown in – including several hundred Australians.
This week Foreign Correspondent travels to British Columbia and Alberta where a desperate battle is underway to save lives and homes. Reporter David Lipson goes inside the fireground to see firsthand how a nation better known for snow and ice is coping with the fire catastrophe.
He meets the Canadian smoke jumpers who parachute into difficult terrain to fight fire fronts in remote locations.
He also spends time in the makeshift camps that have become home to fire crews from around the world including the Australians – many of whom are veterans of Australia’s Black Summer.
The comradery within the camps helps with the challenges of the difficult work they face and when the Australians leave to face their own summer fire season, they know the Canadians will be ready and willing to return the favour.
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MidEngineManiac
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AUG 24, 09:59 PM
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Have those trees paid Turdeau his carbon tax before releasing it ? 
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Patrick
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AUG 24, 10:11 PM
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You just can't help yourself, can you? There's a whole section dedicated to any/all political BS, but you've just got to post that crap here.
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MidEngineManiac
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AUG 25, 08:48 AM
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rinselberg
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AUG 25, 09:06 AM
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It's called "bigfooting" the Totally O/T section with overtly political remarks, which (ideally) should be reserved for the Politics & Religion section.
I'm not going to try to prompt the forum's owner and moderator to intervene on this, but let's call it what it is. It's not "sarcasm."
I'm not going to give you a negative rating, because I don't believe the forum's rating system serves any useful purpose in so far as the Totally O/T and the Politics & Religion sections of the forum.
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Patrick
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AUG 25, 05:35 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by MidEngineManiac:
It's called sarcasm...
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It's called just more of your bullsh!t. Save this crap for P&R.
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