Canada, Manitoba governments put $500K into livestock predation prevention

Thousands of people were ordered to leave their homes in Fort McMurray on Tuesday afternoon as a wildfire in northern Alberta pressed toward the community, reigniting memories of the 2016 blaze that forced the entire city to flee and flattened some neighbourhoods.Jody Butz, director of emergency management for the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, said the evacuation order covers roughly 6,000 people living in four neighbourhoods, some of the same communities that suffered extensive devastation in 2016. The current fire is roughly eight kilometres away from the landfill, just south...