A helicopter battles a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Wednesday May 4, 2016. In May 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of forest.A year later, the fire season in British Columbia broke records as 2,117 blazes consumed more than 12,000 square kilometres of bush.Both have been connected to climate change in two separate research papers published earlier this year by scientists with Environment and Climate Change Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson