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Ontario minister pledges better communication during wildfire season
The province says the upgrades will improve response capacity after about 200 fires forced evacuations and drew calls for a public inquiry.
- Ontario Natural Resources Minister Mike Harris pledged better communication today, Sept 14, 2026, to improve how the province alerts communities when forest fires approach.
- About 200 fires raged in northern Ontario during July, forcing evacuations of more than a dozen communities, many of them remote First Nations.
- Harris announced today that the province is investing more than $20 million to upgrade two major wildfire attack bases in northwestern Ontario.
- First Nations leaders criticized the government's response this summer, alleging they received late warnings or no information as fires spread across their lands.
- Leaders have called for a public inquiry into the province's wildfire response, though Harris has not committed to fulfilling the request.
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