The mayors of Canada’s largest cities want federal funding for disaster resilience topped up and loosened, after a wild 2018 that saw record wildfires and cold snaps, wind storms, flash floods, heat waves and other freak weather events.
Hydro Ottawa says more than 170,000 customers were without power early this morning as a result of the twister, which blew through Ottawa, Dunrobin, Ont., and Gatineau, Que., late Friday afternoon.
Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of Atlantic Canada's major ferry terminals, airports and the Confederation Bridge.
A tsunami warning issued for coastal British Columbia was cancelled Tuesday morning after people living along parts of the province’s coast evacuated to higher ground when a powerful earthquake struck off Alaska.
If it seems as if the weather's getting weirder, you're not wrong. An index of extreme weather in Canada compiled by the insurance industry backs that up.
"Our climate is changing, and it's affecting Canadians across the country," said the department in an end-of-year news release sent out Thursday morning.
The Province of British Columbia apparently knew what to do to lessen the intensity of wildfires by 2017. The reports they'd commissioned in 2003 after the catastrophic Kelowna wildfires were explicit. Remove small trees and other burnable debris and do controlled burns.