Data from Public Safety Canada lists the average annual bill for disaster assistance at $430 million over the last three years. That includes $485.8 million in 2016-17, $494.9 million in 2017-18 and $309.5 million in 2018-19.

People living in Canada's western provinces are facing hotter temperatures than predicted in the decades to come, a new climate-modelling approach from McGill University suggests.