A photo taken by a migrant farm worker from a vineyard located in South Kelowna on August 18, 2023. Wildfires have burned large areas in region.
(Cesar Chavez)
Social media has been vital for disseminating information during crises, but with Facebook’s ban of news in Canada, old-school media, especially radio, is critically important.
Smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire nearly blocks out the sun in Kelowna, B.C. on Aug. 18, 2023.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck