Canada’s First Nations Are Climate Refugees in Their Own Country

Quiet Canines Podcast · Jul 17, 2026 · 2m

What is happening in Northern Ontario right now is devastating.

Nearly 200 wildfires are burning. Six communities have been ordered to evacuate. The community of Collins is gone. The Chief says her people ran from their houses with only the clothes on their backs. Families escaped by boat as the trees beside their homes caught fire. Tonight, some evacuees are sleeping in their cars in Thunder Bay because there is nowhere left to put them.

For years, Ontario firefighters warned that our wildland fire program was understaffed and under resourced. Those warnings were ignored. Communities that…