Climate Disaster

• B.C. disaster response outdated, inaccessible for evacuees: Ombudsperson

  The ombudsperson says the process does not take into account the distinct needs of Indigenous evacuees, elderly people or those with physical and cognitive disabilities.

  Politics

  Oct 3, 2023
  
• Women on the rise at First Nations emergency preparedness boot camp

  Indigenous and non-Indigenous women are being trained as front line responders at this weeks First Nations Emergency Services Society boot camp.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2023
  
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• Catastrophe experts say retreat from flood risk is ‘critical option’

  Preventing damage in flooding requires a more costly community-level response, he said, whether that means property buyouts or expensive dyking systems.

  Environment

  Oct 9, 2022
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• Ottawa can pay half the cost of saving N.S., N.B. land link from rising seas: LeBlanc

  The federal infrastructure minister says Ottawa will consider paying at least half the cost of protecting the land link between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

  Environment

  Mar 21, 2022
• As more military troops head to B.C., experts call for civilian disaster response solution

  Military and security experts say civilian disaster response teams must be part of provincial government plans as climate disasters intensify.

  Weather

  Nov 17, 2021
• ‘Never like this’: B.C. money expert describes planning for climate disaster as wildfires rage

  Kerry K. Taylor has been helping Canadians with money for decades. Now she's confronting a new personal finance topic: how to limit the financial fallout from natural disasters.

  Money

  Jul 22, 2021
• Moon ‘wobble’ effects on Canada’s coastal cities ‘right around the corner’: experts

  The moon "wobble", which represents the path of the moon orbiting the Earth, could increase and worsen high-tide flood events alongside climate change in Canada.

  Canada

  Jul 15, 2021
• Climate-fuelled disasters forcibly displace 20M people a year, Oxfam report says

  Oxfam's report, published Monday, said that climate disasters have become the number one driver of internal displacement in the last decade.

  Environment

  Dec 2, 2019