MONTREAL: As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes. 'I bet a good portion of the wildfires raging across the country were started by green terrorists who want to give their climat
MONTREAL: As Canada hurtles towards its worst wildfire season in history, a conspiracy theory has taken off online claiming environmentalists intentionally set some of the blazes.
On TikTok, a video already viewed almost 20,000 times, claims the fires in Nova Scotia were set"on purpose to push a climate change agenda". But Karine Pelletier from the province's Forest Fire Protection Agency said the causes are still under investigation.
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