B.C. wildfires

Former Liberal cabinet minister George Abbott and Maureen Chapman, Hereditary Chief of the Sq'ewá:lxw (Skawahlook) First Nation, will review B.C.'s unprecedented 2017 fire season. Appointing Chapman to co-chair a major provincial review sends a remarkable and noteworthy message about the relationship between the provincial government and Indigenous peoples.

This year’s wildfire season has become British Columbia’s worst in six decades, and a provincial spokesman says the action is far from over.

The chief of the Tl’etinqox First Nation said RCMP officers told them to leave or risk having their children taken away. Instead they erected a fire boundary and prepared to fight.