According to the Canadian Climate Institute, Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average due to accelerating climate change.

And as we’re home to more than a quarter of the world’s boreal forests, we can see the effects in the resulting wildfires currently raging across the country.

Pat Wally, Chair of Seniors for Climate Manitoba, speaks to the impact of climate change on wildfires.

“Fire season is starting earlier, lasting longer and it’s harder to contain. The fires are becoming bigger, more fierce and more destructive. Because the climate is warming, unfortunately that’s just going to get worse.”

Already, in Manitoba alone, over 733-thousand hectares has burned in 2025, as compared to 266-thousand hectares in the province for all of 2024.

Overheating climate is making Canadian summers hotter, windier and with more erratic rainfall, particularly in the summer.

For more on the impact of climate change on wildfires and the results from them, catch Thompson Today this afternoon at 12:40 and 5:10.