A new study has found that wildfire smoke exposure can increase the risk of dementia, especially among marginalized groups.

Locals have accused Air Canada and WestJet of inflating ... About 46,000 people live in the Northwest Territories, and Canada's military has been co-ordinating the largest airlift evacuation ...

as residents scramble to leave by air and road. About 22,000 people - or roughly half the population in Canada's Northwest Territories - are now displaced in the country's worst fire season on record.

Four of the fatalities were passengers, and two others were crew members with Northwestern Air, the Northwest Territories coroner's office said in a statement on Wednesday. The plane crashed near ...