A new face of summer is emerging, writes Julia Pope. Replacing the iconic images of people camping and hiking are images of smoke and flames, and family picnics held against a backdrop of gray skies full of falling ash.

National Observer joins The Boston Globe and some 350 American newspapers publishing editorials today denouncing Trump's dangerous and demeaning war on the news media.

Maxime Bernier's immigrant bashing wouldn’t be so offensive and worrisome if it were coming from some marginal political figure, but this isn’t some random, fringe member of the Conservative Party. He has been a long-standing member of Parliament, representing the Quebec riding of Beauce, has served in Harper’s administration for years, and came in a close second in the party's leadership race.

That afternoon we stood on her roof watching a cloud of smoke from a distant fire, grow closer, and the firefighters’ helicopters and planes began to fly right over her house, to refill with water from Kokkina Limonaki, writes Cate Whittemore. She called a neighbour who lived in the direction of the smoke, to offer her refuge.