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While backyard fires are no laughing matter for some residents, others are sharing humorous responses to the City of Saskatoon’s restrictions on fire pits.

The newly-implemented curfew on backyard fires has led to some widely-shared memes across social media platforms. For those who don’t know, a meme, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is “an image, video, piece of text, etc. typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations.”

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People have been using the medium in response to the city’s new restrictions, which prohibit backyard fires outside 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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