Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦

[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.

[Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC🇻🇦 @FrMatthewLC]

People need to understand the scale of Canada's forests. Not even 1% have burned this year.

Canada has about 369 million hectares of forest. About 2.8 million have burned this year.
369: https://t.co/Ek7gusq6kf
2.8: https://t.co/2GQnNW3QTc

[Harry Mack @harrymack]

Off-Top King

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@GeorgeProbst I’ve never seen a black and white shark before! 😛

[George Probst 🦈 @GeorgeProbst]

Hey, you! Yes, you! Are you aware that today is Shark Awareness Day?

Just making sure you're aware.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@RingOfFireCGY @MatchsticksCGY Good point.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@WilliamLaceyYYC Not bad. H1 ‘26 could approach these FY numbers, eh?

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@OneDadsFinance @WilliamLaceyYYC Impressive contribution to the topic at hand.

[Spittin' Chiclets @spittinchiclets]

After undergoing successful shoulder surgery, Connor Bedard will be sidelined for the next four months.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@fordnation My favorite red wines, like @seghesio, and beers like @SierraNevada (both American) haven’t seen a cent of mine since this 51st State BS and won’t for another couple years - even without a ban in my province.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@Polygon Clickbait.

[Andrew McLeod 🇨🇦 @df_sacks]

I will do everything I can to avoid anything @Rogers after today’s announcement about the Fan @Fan960Steinberg @Fan960Wills . Just horrible.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

U.S. tariffs are threatening the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers, including here in Ontario.

We won’t back down. The fastest and only way to get U.S. alcohol back on Ontario shelves is for the U.S. to drop its illegal tariffs on Canada.

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

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[Matchsticks & Gasoline @MatchsticksCGY]

The same POS company that just laid off 230 human beings to save a few bucks bought the rest of MLSE for $4.35B yesterday by the way.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@wincolumnCGY What a gutless, tone deaf, and stupid move by @Rogers.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@df_sacks Yep. #Karma

[Calgary Flames @NHLFlames]

Best of luck in Minnesota, Pickles!

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@NunYayzsp @OilEverday @frank_seravalli All I can think is that we will be moving a RHD and Coleman in the next few days. Love Coleman though, so that’ll hurt.

[Aaron Smith 🇺🇦🇨🇦 @aaron_v_smith]

@OilEverday @frank_seravalli On a day that the Oil sign Babcock? Bold. 😉