Weatherhood B.C.

As much of Canada grapples with thick wildfire smoke and poor air quality, residents in southern British Columbia are enjoying a rare reprieve.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... More join the thousands fleeing wildfires in Sask.

Winnipeg hotels were opening up Monday to evacuees who fled their homes due to raging wildfires, while to the west in Saskatchewan thousands more were ordered to flee.

CALGARY — Some oilsands producers are removing workers and shutting production from their sites as wildfires rage in northeastern Alberta. Cenovus Energy Inc.

As emergency officials work to find hotel space for wildfire evacuees on the Prairies, a Manitoba Indigenous group says it has welcomed residents from the Pimicikamak Cree Nation at a hotel in Niagara Falls, Ont.

The British Columbia regional district where a wildfire continues to burn out of control has extended its emergency support services to residents evacuated from the blaze.

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger rose to at least 200 on Sunday, a local official said.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says thousands more evacuees are expected and the city of Flin Flon is virtually deserted as wildfires continue to rage in his province.

DAWSON CREEK — Shelley Calliou of the Kelly Lake Cree Nation said it was "surreal" how fast a wildfire threatening the community in northeast British Columbia moved. She said she was told by the RCMP at 6 p.m.

Climate change has locked in at least 75% of glacier loss in Western Canada and U.S., raising concerns for downstream environments, electricity generation and the wider economy.