By Nick Murray When Jennifer Saulnier fled her home with her dog in Tantallon, N.S., in May 2023, her phone started buzzing as she sat in stalled traffic. Her home monitoring system alerted her first to a window break, then smoke, then fire. Five minutes after “narrowly escaping” from her driveway, she said, her house was gone. “Like many Canadians, I thought climate change was something that would affect future generations,” she told a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, holding one of her son’s charred hockey medals and a melted coin given to him by his grandparents. “I know the impacts of climate change are here. I lived through it, and we’re not ready.” Saulnier, volunteer firefighters and Indigenous wildfire guardians are meeting with MPs this week to push…
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