Q REPORTS (Thetyee.ca) --  Last spring, when Elida Peña Pomares got the invitation to fight forest fires in Canada, the first question from the team co-ordinator was whether she had a passport. She didn’t. At 35 she had never been on an airplane. She had never left Costa Rica, where she was born and is…

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