The desire for waterfront property on Canada’s east coast is fuelling a shoreline building boom, as landowners and developers rush to beat pending regulations that could curb coastal development.
"Fiona was a large-scale, high-impact storm -- likely the most damaging hurricane in Canadian history in terms of insurance costs with initial estimates of $700 million," Dave Phillips said in his 27th annual rundown.
Sea levels in Nova Scotia are set to rise up to a metre by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t reduced “significantly,” says the province, stressing the need to cut back on planet-warming pollution.
Canada’s much-anticipated roadmap to weather the impacts of climate change is out, and it includes $1.6 billion in new spending to fortify infrastructure, protect human health and predict future risks.
The federal agency overseeing Canada's national parks says that $40 million in damage from two earlier Atlantic Canada storms far eclipsed costs incurred due to post-tropical storm Fiona.
Persistent overdependence on fossil fuels — globally and at home — is jeopardizing the health of Canadians and people in all corners of the world, researchers warn.
With the release of Canada’s first National Adaptation Strategy to come before November’s COP27 in Egypt: talks of climate adaptation, mitigation, and sometimes, retreat.
Churning waters and wind gusts exceeding 100 kilometres per hour powered by post-tropical storm Fiona gnawed through large parts of Prince Edward Island National Park in September, leaving behind a changed coastline.
Summerside on Prince Edward Island has its own municipal electrical company, which was able to get power restored much quicker than the rest of the province.
