Heavy rains descending on already waterlogged areas of Canada has residents and emergency officials across the country bracing for flood conditions through Friday and the weekend.
The damaging flooding is coming on the heels of “extreme” weather that led to one of the wettest months in over a century, says the International Lake Ontario—St. Lawrence River Board.
Homes are flooded as the Ottawa River reached its highest levels in decades. Photojournalist Alex Tétreault waded into parts of the flood zone in Gatineau and here's what he found out.
The decision to abandon the Northern Gateway pipeline is a victory for indigenous rights, but the government has moved ahead with Site C "without indigenous consent," says Amnesty.
Researchers are particularly interested in clues that could help shed some light on the time between Europeans reaching North America and their contact with indigenous people in the West.
The melt came two to three weeks earlier this season. What does that mean for flooding, fire, and other extreme weather events linked to climate change?