Climate-driven extreme weather has endangered Canadians and caused billions of dollars of damage. Now, the B.C. government is distributing $5 million in funding to communities to mitigate the loss caused by climate-driven extreme weather.
Because the carbon price increases are relatively small compared to the average household income in Canada, proponents of unrestrained fossil fuel consumption falsely claim the tax hurts the most vulnerable.
Floods and storms accounted for 95 per cent of recorded child displacement between 2016 and 2021, according to the first-of-its-kind analysis by UNICEF and the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The rest — more than two million children — were displaced by wildfires and drought.
There are two more summers until the mandatory date of the next federal election. Canadians are concerned about climate change impacts and expect the government to act to protect us from them.
Kathleen Maxwell has lived in Phoenix for more than 20 years, but this summer was the first time she felt fear, as daily high temperatures soared to 110 degrees or hotter and kept it up for a record-shattering 31 consecutive days.