FOG BLOG CANADA DAY LOG: QUIETER CANADA WITH INDIGENOUS REFLECTING AND LYTTON BC ON FIRE:

Trudeau, political leaders ask Canadians to delicately balance celebration and reflection on Canada Day...Holiday arrives just weeks after the discoveries of unmarked graves and remains at 3 residential schools....Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asking that people celebrating Canada Day also make time to reflect on the nation's historical failures and commit to building a more fair and equitable society.

"Today, we celebrate our country and everyone who calls it home," said Trudeau in a media statement.

"But while we acknowledge our successes, we must also recognize that, for some, Canada Day is not yet a day of celebration."

The prime minister's unusually sombre Canada Day message comes in the wake of discoveries of children's remains and unmarked graves at the sites of former residential schools in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

Trudeau said the revelations "have rightfully pressed us to reflect on our country's historical failures, and the injustices that still exist for Indigenous peoples and many others in Canada."..........INSULT TO INJURY , AFTER DAYS OF BREAKING TEMPERATURE RECORDS I LYTTON BC SEEING TEMPS SOAR TO THE HIGH 40S, NOW LITTERALY THE VILLAGE OF LYTTON BC IS ON FIRE!...Village of Lytton, B.C., evacuated as mayor says 'the whole town is on fire'....Several out-of-control wildfires burning in other parts of province after heat wave.......A small B.C. village that endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded in Canada for days on end this week was engulfed in flames Wednesday night and residents were forced to flee, many without their belongings.

Mayor Jan Polderman says he told everyone to leave Lytton, as a fire rapidly spread into the community of about 250 people. He signed the official evacuation order at 6 p.m. PT.

"It's dire. The whole town is on fire," Polderman told CBC News. "It took, like, a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere."

He said he told residents to head for the nearby community of Boston Bar, and was on his way there himself. A reception centre has also been set up in Merritt to the east, and other residents have taken shelter in Lillooet to the north.

"At the First Nation band office, the fire was a wall about three, four feet high coming up to the fence line. I drove through town and it was just smoke, flames, the wires were down," Polderman said.

Video captured by residents rushing out of town show numerous structures on fire in every direction.