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Canadian wildfire smoke ignites cross-border feud over Ottawa’s ‘willful negligence’
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As smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to drift across parts of the United States, forestry experts say Canada could reduce the severity of some fires through more aggressive forest management.
The issue reached the White House Friday, with President Donald Trump accusing Canada of failing to properly manage its forests and threatening to factor the economic cost of the smoke into tariffs on Canadian imports.
«We are holding Canada responsible for the fact that they are not properly maintaining their Forests, and Brush therein, and the United States is being unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted, and unhealthy air,» Trump wrote on Truth Social. He said he planned to call Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and accused Canada of refusing to engage in «basic Forest Management and Debris Removal,» calling it «Willful Negligence.»
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NEW YORK CITY, UNITED STATES – JULY 16: Smoke from massive wildfires in Canada engulfed the New York City skyline, reducing visibility and casting an orange haze over the New York City, United States on July 16, 2026. The smoky conditions reduced visibility across the skyline, while authorities continued monitoring air quality as the wildfire smoke spread across the northeastern United States. (Photo by Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Andrew Hale, a Canadian fellow at Advancing American Freedom, argued that Canada’s wildfire policies have failed to prioritize forest management.
«Canada has a policy of not keeping reservoirs. They also will not cut firebreaks and will not thin their forests,» Hale told Fox News Digital. «This is the result of the undue influence of environmental groups who are firmly politically motivated and have divorced themselves from science and good stewardship. Canada and the rest of North America is suffering as a result,» he said.
Earlier this week, four Republican members of Michigan’s congressional delegation — Reps. Jack Bergman, John James, Lisa McClain and John Moolenaar — sent a letter to Carney saying residents in their state were once again experiencing unhealthy air because of smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires.
During a speech at the Toronto International Film Festival, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney hinted at President Donald Trump threatening Canadian sovereignty in recent months. (Jim Watson/Getty Images)
«We are done accepting apologies in place of action,» the lawmakers wrote, accusing Canada of underinvesting in forest thinning, fuel reduction and prescribed burns while calling for measurable plans to reduce future wildfire smoke crossing the border.
The criticism comes as Canada’s own Senate has reached a similar conclusion on one point: while it says climate change is making wildfire seasons longer and more severe, the country also needs to do substantially more to prepare its forests before fires ignite.
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Smoke from wildfires in Canada shrouds the Manhattan skyline in Brooklyn, New York, on Thursday, July 16, 2026. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry released a report in June titled Canada on Fire: The Catastrophic and Escalating Effects of Wildfires on Lives and Communities after holding 17 meetings, hearing testimony from 79 witnesses and receiving 23 written briefs from scientists, government officials, Indigenous leaders and industry experts.
The committee concluded that Canada’s three most recent wildfire seasons demonstrated that climate change was accelerating fire behavior «beyond the capacity of existing systems.» At the same time, it found that prevention efforts have not kept pace with the growing threat.
Much of the report focuses on what experts call «fuel management» — reducing the amount of dry grass, dead trees, fallen branches and other vegetation that allows small fires to become large, destructive wildfires.
«Several witnesses agreed that prescribed fire is the most important risk-reduction tool for helping to manage or slow wildfire on the landscape and restoring ecological integrity,» the report said.
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Cars sit in intense traffic as people evacuate because of wildfires early on July 23, 2024, in Jasper, Alberta. Multiple wildfires in Canada’s Jasper National Park have flared up, forcing all park visitors along with the 4,700 residents of Jasper to flee. (Carolyn Campbell/The Canadian Press via AP))
One witness, Paul Hessburg, a professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, said that climate change is making wildfire conditions worse but does not eliminate the value of proactive forest management.
«The punchline is, with climate change, these conditions will intensify with less snowpack, more fires, bigger fires, hotter fires,» Hessburg told the committee. «The question is: Can we restore resilience? We can. We can bring back these elements and put the governors back into the landscape that historically regulated the flow of fire.»
Jason Hayes, a senior research fellow in energy and environmental policy at the Heritage Foundation, said the practical solution is to spend more time managing forests before fires begin rather than relying primarily on emergency response after they start.
«The best thing to do is get out, space and thin, do prescribed burns and recognize that these are renewable resources,» Hayes told Fox News Digital. «If we did that, then we would have much less intense wildfires.»
Hayes acknowledged that carrying out those recommendations across Canada would be far more difficult than simply identifying them. He said many fires burn in remote areas of northern Ontario and other parts of Canada that are difficult to reach because they are far from roads and population centers.
«You have to fly in, and it’s just difficult to do,» Hayes said.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA – JULY 10: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY «MANDATORY CREDIT – BC WILDFIRE SERVICE» – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) An aerial view of wildfire of Tatkin Lake in British Columbia, Canada on July 10, 2023. (BC Wildfire Service/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Witnesses to the Canadian Senate committee also warned that Canada faces practical challenges beyond forest management, including shortages of wildfire-management expertise and an aging fleet of firefighting aircraft. The report cited testimony that provincial fleets still include 22 older CL-215 aircraft and that at least 20 aircraft require immediate replacement.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the Office of Prime Minister Mark Carney but did not receive a comment in time for publication.
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The White House released a trove of election integrity documents Thursday night after President Donald Trump’s primetime address, posting files related to alleged voting system vulnerabilities, China’s alleged acquisition of U.S. voter data, a Michigan voter registration investigation and noncitizens on state voter rolls.
The documents, posted on a new White House election integrity page, are organized into four buckets and include intelligence assessments, FBI files, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency materials and Department of Homeland Security-related summaries covering issues ranging from election infrastructure cybersecurity to voter-registration database threats.
The release gives the public access to records the White House says support Trump’s renewed push for election reforms, including voter ID and proof-of-citizenship requirements.
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The president claimed in his address that electronic voting machines are vulnerable and easily compromised. Fox News has not yet seen evidence supporting that claim and is not able to independently evaluate the accuracy of his statement.
«This vital information has for many years been covered up and hidden from you,» Trump said Thursday night during an address from the White House on election integrity. «But that all changes right now.»
President Donald Trump slammed ABC and NBC as «fake news» over their decisions not to air his speech live, suggesting their broadcasting licenses should be revoked. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
The White House page lists the four document categories as «Vulnerabilities in Electronic Voting and Ballot-Counting Systems,» «China’s Acquisition and Exploitation of American Voter Data,» «Michigan Voter-Registration Investigation» and «Noncitizens on State Voter Rolls.» The page says the files span from January 2020 to June 2026.
Fox News Digital could not independently verify the contents of the documents.
In the section on voting systems, the White House says the documents include what it describes as previously classified intelligence assessments and other reports warning that U.S. adversaries could compromise election infrastructure, including voter registration databases, poll books and election websites.
A separate section includes White House claims that China acquired hundreds of millions of U.S. voter files, while another highlights FBI files tied to an alleged voter registration operation in Michigan.
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«Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead kept the information secret and hidden,» Trump claimed. «They did not disclose (it) to me as president or to anyone else.»
The final bucket focuses on what the White House describes as a DHS review that the White House claims identified noncitizens on state voter rolls.
The documents were posted to the White House website during the president’s speech Thursday night, and more updates, filings and findings are expected to drop, according to the new election integrity webpage.
«The documents we will release starting tonight have been gathered by the White House Government Transparency Taskforce, a great group of people, along with the staff of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, supported by our top intelligence agency chiefs, who have all personally reviewed the findings we are presenting this evening and fully confirmed their authenticity,» Trump said during his speech Thursday.
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The files were released as Trump has intensified his election integrity push ahead of the midterms, including calls for voter ID, proof-of-citizenship requirements and Senate passage of the SAVE Act.
Trump previously signed an executive order aimed at requiring proof of citizenship on federal voter registration forms, but federal judges have blocked key portions of the order while the House-passed SAVE Act remains stalled in the Senate.
«No trust, no greatness,» Trump told Americans Thursday.
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A Hawaii Supreme Court justice used a ruling overturning a decades-old criminal conviction to deliver a blistering rebuke of Chief Justice John Roberts’ Supreme Court, accusing the nation’s highest court of weakening constitutional rights, damaging democracy and advancing a political agenda.
Justice Todd Eddins authored the 91-page majority opinion Wednesday in State v. Granillo , a case involving a man convicted in 1990 of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman on Maui. The court ordered a new trial after concluding that hair and fiber evidence presented by an FBI expert relied on forensic science that has since been discredited.
But in roughly eight pages of the opinion, Eddins argued Hawaii’s courts should not look to the Roberts Court when interpreting the state constitution, using the case to deliver an unusually sharp critique of the nation’s highest court.
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«When six justices walk away from those they are supposed to protect, state constitutions hold the line,» Eddins wrote, referring to the court’s six conservative justices. «That is not defiance. That is the design.»
Eddins argued that Hawaii’s Constitution provides stronger protections than the federal Constitution as currently interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and said the Court has abandoned landmark civil rights principles.
Hawaii Supreme Court Justice issued a scathing review of the Supreme Court’s most recent rulings, arguing that the High Court has weakened constitutional protections for citizens. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images/ Ballotpedia)
«The Court that now defines federal due process does not honor the work of 1954,» Eddins wrote. «It revives the work of 1857. The work of 1896.»
Eddins was referring to Brown v. Board of Education, ruled in 1954, which ended racial segregation in public schools, as well as Dred Scott v. Sandford, the infamous 1857 decision denying citizenship to Black Americans and Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 ruling that upheld racial segregation.
Eddins argued that the Roberts Court no longer reflects the constitutional principles established in Brown v. Board of Education, but instead, he argued the Court’s originalist approach relies on the same type of constitutional interpretation in the discredited Dred Scott and Plessy decisions.
«Today’s hubristic originalists use the same method to control modern life,» Eddins wrote.
John Roberts, chief justice of the US Supreme Court, from left, Elena Kagan, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, and Amy Coney Barrett, associate justice of the US Supreme Court, during a State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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«The Court overrides what Congress passed,» Eddins continued. «It overrides what the people chose. All to serve its own ends. What this Court has done to constitutional rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law explains why Hawaiʻi’s Constitution takes no instruction from it.»
Throughout the opinion, Eddins pointed to many of the Roberts Court’s most consequential decisions as evidence that constitutional protections have been weakened, including Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion; Citizens United v. FEC on campaign finance; Rucho v. Common Cause on partisan gerrymandering; Trump v. United States on presidential immunity; and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which expanded Second Amendment protections.
Eddins accused the Roberts Court of adopting a «colorblind» approach to the Equal Protection Clause that, in his view, ignores the amendment’s original purpose of protecting formerly enslaved Black Americans.
«The Roberts Court sees only white,» he wrote. «It refuses to acknowledge who the Equal Protection Clause was written to protect.»
He also suggested that recent Supreme Court decisions have repeatedly expanded the power of government officials and wealthy interests while reducing protections for individual rights.
«A court that systematically dismantles democratic safeguards, steamrolls constitutional liberties, and tramples human dignity does not chart the course for the Hawaiʻi Constitution,» he wrote.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts attends inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo (Reuters)
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The opinion quickly drew criticism from legal observers, who said it was highly unusual for a state supreme court opinion to devote so much space to criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court.
«The Court issues an unhinged attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court,» Iowa Solicitor General Eric Wessan wrote on X. «I haven’t ever seen something like this. And it’s not good.»
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley similarly described the opinion as «devoid of judicial restraint and decorum.»
«The Hawaii Supreme Court just issued a truly shocking opinion that unleashed a torrent of rage and recrimination against the majority of the United States Supreme Court, including suggesting that they are de facto racists,» Turley wrote on X.
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The opinion comes just weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court handed Hawaii a major loss in Wolford v. Lopez, striking down the state’s so-called «vampire rule.» In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled Hawaii could not require gun owners to get a property owner’s permission before carrying a firearm into businesses and other private property open to the public.
Eddins has served on the Hawaii Supreme Court since 2020 after being appointed by then-Democratic Gov. David Ige.
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