Wildfires force more than 800 to evacuate northwestern Ontario First Nation

Wildfires force more than 800 to evacuate northwestern Ontario First Nation

Wildfires have forced more than 800 residents to evacuate their northwestern Ontario First Nation.
Chief Waylon Scott of the Wabaseemoong Independent Nation, which sits about 100 kilometres northwest of Kenora near the Manitoba border, says rain and cooler temperatures have kept

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