TORONTO – An unprecedented emergency. Canada could see a “record” level of burnt area this year: nine provinces and territories are already currently battling wildfires that have forced the evacuation of more than 100,000 people across the country since early May, government officials said today, showing wildfire risks are set to rise this month and remain “unusually high” throughout the summer in Canada. (more…)
TORONTO – “Suddenly it gets night, the cold wedges raw, the city trembles, bruises trembles. The fires rise to the sky, the fires rise in gloomy flames.” Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, with these words contained in the 1996 song Cupe Vampe (Gloomy Flames), had described the agony and suffering of Sarajevo during the long and brutal siege, one of the most tragic episodes of the Balkan War of the nineties.