Feds offer $15M on top of G7 aid to fight Amazon fires

BIARRITZ, France -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is offering $15 million and the use of Canadian water bombers to help fight the wildfires currently ravaging the Amazon rainforest. Speaking at the end of the G7 leaders' summit, Trudeau says the country is also reaching out to the government of Brazil to see what else is needed to douse the flames, which he describes as a symptom of an escalating climate crisis. Trudeau's announcement came on the heels of a US$20-mill