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Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Rain, lightning expected in B.C.

POPKUM, B.C. — When Walter Roos was planning for the ceremony over Zoom where he would become a Canadian citizen, he expected to attend in business attire while at home in Popkum, B.C., east of Chilliwack.

A children's summer camp located on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia's Interior has been destroyed by the McDougall Creek wildfire.

Several researchers have started looking into how fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke can enter the body and travel to the brain.

TORONTO — The stationery aisles are expected to be busier this year as parents and students return to in-store shopping when stocking up on back-to-school essentials, though their baskets may be a little less full.

Wildfires raging throughout British Columbia have destroyed structures and forced more than 27,000 people from their homes. The province remains in a state of emergency as crews battle the more than 375 active blazes.

YELLOWKNIFE — Crews continued Tuesday to battle wildfires that have forced seven out of every 10 Northwest Territories residents from their homes — or about 30,000 people.

A travel ban intended to free up accommodations in parts of British Columbia hardest-hit by raging wildfires will largely lift by day's end, provincial officials said Tuesday as those in affected communities began getting a clearer sense of the damag

TORONTO — The senior Ontario political staffer at the centre of a scathing report into the provincial government's decision to open up protected Greenbelt lands for housing development resigned Tuesday.

An elementary school in the booming southwestern Ontario city of London moved to cap enrolment this week, as the local school board grapples with how best to keep up with rapid population growth.