642593 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.archyde.com/cooler-weather-brings-relief-to-firefighters-in-canada/2023-08-21 21:35:05 In the fight against devastating wildfires in western Canada, cooler weather made it easier for firefighters to battle the blazes on Monday. The fires are not expected to spread, said Jared Schroeder, a senior fire official in British Columbia, a province particularly hard hit.2023-08-21T23:58+0200archyde-823981f49075b38e4d68e5f5fa46b53120230821235800https://www.fijitimes.com/canada-to-deploy-armed-forces-in-british-columbia-to-tackle-fast-spreading-fires/By Nia Williams. REVELSTOKE, British Columbia (Reuters) – Canada is sending armed forces to tackle fast-spreading wildfires in British Columbia, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday, as the western province deals with flames that have put more than 35,000 people under evacuation order.2023-08-21T23:25+0200fijitimes-1e59db4f1cf7cce39ebcf1dd40ca2f0220230821232500https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/canada-wildfires-map-british-columbia-b2396575.htmlis again battling an outbreak of deadly , with forced to declare a state of emergency after a number of severe blazes broke out in the area surrounding The predominantly rural region under threat stretches south of the country’s border with the United States into northern Washington and east into....2023-08-21T21:27+0200newsnow-co-uk-8bdf4beed7b405f4cb9df7ee7e0b6a2e20230821212700https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2023-08-21-news-about-forest-fires-in-canada-blocked-on-facebook--prime-minister-trudeau-sharply-criticizes-us-company-meta.B1M0Wumb6h.html2023-08-21T18:08:05.815Z. Highlights: Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sharply criticized Facebook's parent company Meta's refusal to show news about the wildfires on social networks. Meta has been blocking messages on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada since the beginning of August.2023-08-21T20:08+0200tellerreport-c70cfc4af366b9ed463533ce2816673c20230821200800