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The 44 North · Aug 5, 2026

North of the Headline - Episode Two: The Wildfires

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Emerson Prentice · The 44 North

The 44 North publishes youth perspectives to encourage thoughtful engagement with complex social, political, historical, and cultural issues. The following conversation reflects the views and analysis of the speakers. As with all work that includes opinion, this conversation has been edited for clarity and reviewed for factual accuracy, but the interpretations and arguments are the speakers’ own.

“Anytime you’re seeing heavy smoke like that, it means that somewhere something’s actively burning.”

In this episode of North of the Headline, host and contributing political writer for The 44 North, Emerson Prentice, speaks with Senior Editor Mikaela Brewer as well as friends and family in the U.S. Together, they discuss the complexity of this year’s wave of wildfires—the evacuations, the smoke, and even potential tariffs.

North of the Headline is a new conversation series from The 44 North that goes beyond an article to talk with writers about the deeper ideas and questions behind their work.

This episode was hosted and produced by Emerson Prentice with support from Mikaela Brewer and Gillian Smith-Clark. The theme music is from Nesterouk.

You can read more work like this at The 44 North here. You can find more information about the active status of wildfires in Canada here and resources here.

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