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Despite a long history of helping out, both need all hands on deck to battle rampant wildfires on either side of the border, says a Natural Resources Canada background memo obtained by The Canadian Press.
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Both the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre and its U.S. counterpart are at Level 5 of the “national preparedness” scale, the highest tier, “indicating a deficit of personnel in both countries,” the memo says.
“It’s of great concern to me,” Miller said Tuesday in an interview with The Canadian Press.
Prairie Provinces, where there are high populations of Indigenous people, are moving away from most of their COVID-19 restrictions.
Manitoba announced earlier this week it would end its mask mandate and remove many restrictions on businesses and groups sizes this Saturday.
Saskatchewan has also dropped most restrictions put in place to stop the spread of the pandemic, while Alberta is facing criticism from health-care experts after lifting all of its public health orders.
In July, outbreaks were declared on three First Nations in the northern half of Saskatchewan. The sparsely populated northern half of the province continues to add new COVID-19 cases at the fastest pace in Canada.
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TOLLS WATERWAYS
T. R. ENDERBY Generd Mmager, Canada Steamsbip Line
THERE IS NO DOUBT whatever that Canada has much more to gain by preserving a free waterway than by reverting to an imposition of canal tolls, and I readily respond to the editor s suggestion that I outline the chief reasons supporting this side of the case.
There are three chief reasons why a free waterway is distinctly to Canada’s national advantage, and they may be summarized as follows:
1. Canada is a country to which transportation costs are a matter of particular importance, not only because she is primarily an exporting country competing in world markets, but also because her centres of population, between which domestic trade is conducted, are separated by great distances. A free waterway is thus a benefit not only to the immediately adjacent territory but to all parts of the country, because water rates influence other rates. Canal tolls would inevitably mean higher transportation costs for almost every