Vjosa Isai
Reporter and Researcher at The New York Times
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6 days ago |
nytimes.com | Vjosa Isai
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota are already seeing air quality deteriorate because of smoke from the fires in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Thousands of people have evacuated their homes across parts of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where officials have declared a state of emergency and crews are working to contain dozens of out-of-control wildfires.
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1 week ago |
seattletimes.com | Ali Watkins |Vjosa Isai
Two neighboring provinces in Canada’s prairies have declared states of emergency as dozens of wildfires have flared up and grown out-of-control, displacing thousands of residents. Scott Moe, the premier of Saskatchewan, issued the emergency order Thursday, one day after his peer, Wab Kinew of Manitoba, did the same. Fifteen communities have been evacuated across northern Saskatchewan, a rural region home to several Indigenous reserves.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Vjosa Isai
TORONTO -- What do U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., celebrity physician Mehmet Oz and some Canadian animal lovers have in common? They all want to save a flock of 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm. But there’s a catch. The birds were in contact with a deadly virus: H5N1, a type of bird flu. Canada ordered the birds to be culled after the bird flu spread through Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, British Columbia, a town in the province’s interior, north of Washington state.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Vjosa Isai
Ostriches on a British Columbia farm have died of the avian flu. Canada ordered hundreds of others to be culled. But two top Trump administration officials have objected. What do the U.S. health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the celebrity physician Mehmet Oz and some Canadian animal lovers have in common? They all want to save a flock of 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm. But there's a catch. The birds were in contact with a deadly virus: the avian flu.
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2 weeks ago |
seattletimes.com | Matina Stevis-Gridneff |Vjosa Isai
CALGARY, Alberta — Just as Canada tries to exit one crisis, another one looms. The country is finding its footing after a protracted political transition to a new leader, amid President Donald Trump’s tariffs and sovereignty threats. But now the western province of Alberta is laying the groundwork to hold a referendum asking voters whether they support seceding from Canada.
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