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Provincial, local governments should consider mandatory hurricane interpretation training: ICLR report
August 25, 2017 Jason Contant, Online EditorProvincial and local governments should consider mandating compulsory training in the Canadian Hurricane Centre (CHC)’s severe hurricane interpretation course, the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR) recommended in a new research paper. The paper, titled Communicating hurricane risk in Eastern Canada:…
Ontario Trucking Association to investigate roadside towing charges of heavy-duty recovery companies
January 27, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe passing of the Fighting Fraud and Reducing Automobile Insurance Rates Act, 2014 has fuelled plans by the Ontario Trucking Association to investigate if roadside towing charges by heavy-duty recovery firms reflect the rates officially advertised on their websites. OTA…
Federal government should consider emergency back-stop mechanism for catastrophic earthquake: conference board
November 22, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Conference Board of Canada is echoing a recent recommendation by a former federal superintendent of financial institutions for Ottawa to consider adopting a last-resort, emergency back-stop mechanism for a catastrophic earthquake given the long-reaching, adverse effects that the event…
ICBC helps launch pedestrian safety campaign as crashes “spike at this time of year”
October 18, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterThe Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) has launched a pedestrian safety campaign with the provincial government and police to urge pedestrians and drivers to stay safe as “crashes involving pedestrians spike at this time of year.” On average, 59…
Alberta emergency relief funding following wildfire to end this month
October 6, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterThe emergency payment program that has helped approximately 96,000 Wood Buffalo evacuees, forced from their homes in the wake of the massive Fort McMurray wildfire this past May, is ending Oct. 31. The program – which has provided wildfire relief…
Impact of Fort Mac wildfire adds to Alberta’s economic challenges, increases deficit: province
August 24, 2016 by Angela StelmakowichCosts associated with the wildfire that ravaged parts of Alberta’s Wood Buffalo region this past May, coupled with the impact of ongoing low oil prices, has set the provincial government on a continuing cautious course to its finances. “In the…