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Leaders of First Nations hit by Ontario wildfires speak out about way climate crises are handledCBC NewsSarah LawJul 19, 2026With about 600 Eabametoong First Nation members at the centre of another evacuation due to northern Ontario wildfires, community leaders are speaking out about the conditions that make First Nations more vulnerable to such crises.“The conditions in which they [First Nations] are dealing with, just in terms of air quality, are already poor — and there's very little fire support there, too,” says Riley Yesno, a member of Eabametoong First Nation, also known as Fort Hope, and a distinguished fellow at the Yellowhead Institute.The remote Ojibway community, located about 360 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, declared a state of emergency on Wednesday. More than 1,600 people live in Eabametoong; about 600 of them are being flown out by military aircraft, with help from the Royal Canadian Air Force and Canadian Rangers.Evacuation flights began over the weekend, after the federal minister of emergency management and community resilience, Eleanor Olszewski, approved a request from Ontario Regional Chief Abram Benedict for assistance from the Canadian Armed Forces. Some 460 evacuees have already arrived in Niagara Falls.CBC News has contacted Eabametoong’s Chief Solomon Atlookan for more details and is awaiting his availability for an interview. ...Yesno said the lack of engagement speaks to “a colonial legacy that essentially sets Indigenous communities up to be disposable.”“I'm really extremely angry with not just this government, but all levels of government, and the generations of underfunding that communities like mine have experienced, that emergency services have experienced,” Yesno said.“It's very shameful that we are living in a country where Indigenous people are made to be climate refugees in their own homelands.”(more)https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/eabametoong-first-nation-wildfire-evacuation-9.7275869
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