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The boreal is a difficult place to work—in any field and in any season. The desire to escape—to a bar in Edmonton, to a drug dealer in Red Deer, to a wavering girlfriend in Kelowna—can be overpowering, and accident statistics reflect this. By the time Highway 63 was twinned from two to four lanes between 2010 and 2016, it had earned a reputation as one of the most dangerous roads in North America. In a single month in 2007, at the height of Fort McMurray’s latest and greatest boom, twenty-eight people were killed on it—almost one a day. People started calling it the “Highway of Death” and ...more
Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World
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