Good morning. Ottawa says it’s assisting B.C. after wildfires forced the province to declare a state of emergency and evacuate several communities. More of that below, along with the latest from the Middle East and the Tour de France Femmes.

British Columbia declared a state of emergency this weekend after more than 20,000 residents were forced to evacuate Summerland and other Okanagan Lake communities. The federal government said yesterday that it is responding to a request from the province to find shelter space for evacuees.

Widespread destruction: The wildfire destroyed homes in its path, and Summerland Mayor Doug Holmes said the fire also torched barns and other infrastructure within the valley, which has many orchards and vineyards. He said he left the community at 3:30 a.m. Saturday and joined a winding convoy travelling south. “Everything behind us is on fire now.”

One confirmed death: The RCMP say an 80-year-old woman who was trying to leave her Meadow Valley home with a family member on Friday died suddenly. Police believe the death to be a result of the wildfire but an investigation is under way to determine the exact cause.

In context: Severe drought and more frequent heat waves are hemispheric in scale, experts told The Globe, and the evacuated B.C. towns are just the latest to experience conditions that produce fast-expanding infernos. The main culprit is changing weather conditions as greenhouse-gas emissions climb despite international commitments to curb them.

Where fires are burning: There were more than 620 active wildfires across Canada as of Sunday. Here’s where they are located.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu restated his rejection of U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest Gaza plan in televised remarks on Sunday. Israel has scaled back attacks since Monday, when a representative from Trump’s Board of Peace met with Netanyahu.

The context: Netanyahu is seeking re-election in October and is caught between far-right ministers, angered by concessions, and Trump, who wants progress toward ending the conflict. The U.S. President announced a breakthrough last month, saying Hamas would disarm, Israel would withdraw from Gaza and a new international force would secure the enclave. But complications emerged: Israel said its troops in Gaza would not move before Hamas disarms, while Hamas insisted that Israel halt its attacks first.

Malehya Brooks-Murray, the mother of two Nova Scotia children missing for more than a year, says she believes her kids are alive and that it’s possible they were snatched off their backcountry property. She sat down for an interview with The Globe and Mail and the CBC late last month, her first public comments since the early days after Lilly and Jack Sullivan’s mysterious disappearance.

The investigation: The case has confounded the RCMP and led to widespread speculation and finger-pointing, both locally in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County, across the country and in online true-crime communities. Much of that blame has been directed at their mother, who moved away from the remote settlement of Lansdowne the day after her children went missing and never returned to the trailer where they lived. In the interview, Brooks-Murray defended her silence over the past 15 months and demanded answers from police.

Idaho preacher Doug Wilson spent decades on the fringes as his views – from opposing women’s voting rights to making the U.S. a Christian nation hostile to other faiths – grew further from the mainstream. But he’s no longer a voice in the wilderness: the Calvinist denomination he founded has grown to tens of thousands of congregants, including U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth and other members of the Trump administration.

The philosophy: Wilson calls it the “Moscow mood,” named after the western Idaho town where his church is located. He and others propose restructuring American democracy to bring it closer to what they view as the dictates of a Christian God. The idea that the U.S. has changed too much, too fast, is politically potent, but Christian nationalists have run into stiff local opposition – even in Moscow, where locals can’t recall a church member being elected to any public office.