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[DJ @DjCheshier]

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

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@PaoloCanta64593 @CaryKelly11 Potato salad?

[giraffe @neckincrisis]

mind your own fucking business

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Today at noon thousands of red rose petals will flutter down through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome. This spectacular tradition is held each year on the feast of Pentecost.

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@CraigBrockie Restore

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@CraigBrockie @yeti_mind Probiotics

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@CraigBrockie Guide

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

All men and women, especially Christians, are called to fix their gaze on those who suffer, on the pain of the lonely, and on those who are emarginated for various reasons, for without them we cannot build a just society. Only together can we build communities of solidarity capable of caring for everyone, in which wellbeing and peace can flourish for the benefit of all. Caring for the humanity of others helps us to live our own lives to the full.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

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@gotrice2024 Install the fence 4 inches inside the property line. Dig up his tree and give it to him.

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@CraigBrockie Um, he was an Epstein friend. Maybe not an awesome promotion idea.

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@simonmaechling Hi

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@NoLore You think that minor inconvenience is decay? More curiously, do you think primary schools should go to the expense of keeping your records? I don’t wish to be offensive but that’s a bit much.

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

Bern has a quirky summer tradition: instead of driving home, some locals jump into the Aare River after work, pack their clothes in waterproof bags, and float with the current all the way home — a refreshingly unique commute.🇨🇭🏊‍♂️

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@StuntmanStu Blasphemous

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@StuntmanStu @F2Fcanada Turkey!!

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Surely this is the best bench in the world

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@StuntmanStu @barrhaven_ford Red truck

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@StuntmanStu @barrhaven_ford The red jeep please