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Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food

I am not sorry. People say I should be. But I am not.

I wish things had gone differently. I wish Shapiro and Dubois had not died. I wish you had not run. I wish you had been less of a coward.

Sometimes, in my weakest moments, I even wish I had loved humanity a little less. Because if I had loved them any less I might have chosen you. Might have let billions die to delay the launch. To train and send someone else.

But it is not who I am. And I knew who you were. Knew you would run. Knew you would save us all anyways.

You were my solution, and I was right. If it is any consolation, I was also right about spending my life in prison, now that I am no longer necessary.

I am not sorry. But you were my friend. And I do miss you.

…

And if you are gone… if you did not make it to Erid, and I am speaking to a room full of eridians,

Please know that I - that earth, did not betray Dr. Grace out of a lack of love for him. We did it because we loved him. Loved him so much we trusted him to save us.

As you must have loved your crew.

Goodbye Dr. Grace, savior of two worlds, and the only one who was ever truly by my side. I commend your body to the stars, for a second time.

even though redell caused deaths, even though he embezzled money from a project that was supposedly supposed to help countries in northern africa (and which countries are those, weir?), and even though he expresses racist viewpoints in that section, he is courted by stratt and grace for his ideas. and even though those ideas will have stark ecological repercussions for the countries in africa especially, grace meets this with protest once before the conversation moves on instantly to the science and the concept of implementation. no further critique can be leveraged against the idea, because the science is sound, and grace christens the idea with merit when he can find no flaws in it. so in the end who cares about the sacrifice of those unnamed others? the science checks out and its for the "greater good" and the only opinions that matter are of those three in the room right there.

ultimately redell is rewarded for his idea with time off his sentence. because stratt, grace, and redell are all part of the same system - at least in regards to world power dynamics. they are the ones who hold this decision making in their hands, and this goes unquestioned throughout the entirety of the novel.