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A massive wildfire could double in size by the end of today, Canadian officials fear, as they continue to evacuate residents of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray from work camps north of Alberta's oil sands city.

A Limerick doctor working in the Canadian city ravaged by Alberta’s wildfires has told of the devastation caused by the blaze now raging over an area bigger than New York city.

Alberta has declared a state of emergency as crews battle to hold back wildfires that have destroyed 1,600 homes and buildings in Canada’s main oil sands city of Fort McMurray, forcing more than 80,000 people to flee.

Footage has come to light of Canadian residents franticly feeling their homes as wildfires blaze right on the side of the road.

A pilot had to use all of his training and skill after his plane was involved in a mid air collision with another small aircraft.

A Dublin-born engineer has died following a bear attack in Canada.

With reference to your recent article on Canada by Jennifer Hough, I enjoyed reading it and was pleased to see the Canadians acknowledged for their generosity towards immigrants.

TWENTY-FOUR hours, 365 days a year, trucks the size of three-storey houses roll across an Arctic wasteland, scooping up a sticky sand that has become the holy grail of global oil companies and multinational investors.

IT’S hard to imagine that anything happening at 56°44’N by 111°07’W, in a place where the temperature barely rises above freezing for months on end, has much relevance to the lives we live on the watery edge of Europe.