
July 31, 2026 - 07:09 | Rob Drinkwater | The Globe and Mail
A wildfire near Bordeaux burned hot enough to make its own thunderstorm this week, and the lightning it threw started new fires. It was the first pyrocumulonimbus cloud ever recorded in France, but Canada has seen hundreds of them in the last decade. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds, the fire-generated thunderstorms contributing to the blazes that forced tens of thousands of people from the region in southwest France this week, are rare in Europe. NASA has called them the “fire-breathing dragon of clouds.” The Gironde prefecture said Thursday that the fire has burned 42,000 hectares near...
July 31, 2026 - 07:00 | Mason Kossak | National Post
It was a golden Friday for Canadian judokas Evelyn Beaton and Julien Frascadore at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.
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July 31, 2026 - 06:30 | Tom Cardoso | The Globe and Mail
Good morning. Ottawa’s push for major projects just delivered a new deal. More on that below, along with a big day in soccer politics and a strike notice at WestJet.
July 31, 2026 - 06:04 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
