— OMAR MOUALLEM writes in WIRED on “the impossible fight to stop Canada’s wildfires.”

 — SERGE SCHMEMANN writes in The New York Times from Quebec: “This has been the summer from climate hell all across Earth, when it ceased being possible to escape or deny what we have done to our planet and ourselves.”

— In the Toronto Star, SHELLENE DRAKES TULL weaves in Jamaican patois in a column about “wasteman behavior” and traces it to Ontario Premier DOUG FORD.

Spotted: Harvard’s men’s basketball team had lunch at Lornado with U.S. Ambassador DAVID COHEN before playing the Carleton Ravens.

Movers and shakers: International Trade Minister MARY NG’s new chief of staff is KEVIN COON … DAN VANDAL’s former director of communications, RYAN COTTER, is now chief of staff to Citizens’ Services Minister TERRY BEECH … MILED HILL has been promoted as Transport Minister PABLO RODRIGUEZ’s chief of staff after service as policy director in the transport minister’s office.

After recently leaving a posting in the Quebec government office in Washington, JUSTIN MARGOLIS is now a senior trade policy analyst in Ottawa at Global Affairs Canada’s Mexico and trilateral affairs desk.