Canada’s Historic Wildfire Season Hits Indigenous People Hardest
October 05, 2025 | Source: The Washington Post | by Amanda Coletta
Fire WE025 started small. But in late May, hot and dry conditions and gusty winds whipped it into an out-of-control inferno. Over 116 days, it swept across northwestern Manitoba, chewing up 447,000 acres of Canada’s boreal forest — an area larger than Houston — one of many massive conflagrations in one of the country’s worst wildfire seasons on record.