Heat dome, flooding, drought: A list of Canada’s Top 10 weather events in 2021
December 29, 2021 The Canadian PressDave Phillips, senior climatologist with Environment Canada, has been compiling a Top 10 list of Canada’s weather events for more than two decades. Here are his picks for 2021: Heat dome in Western Canada: At the end of June,…
Key B.C. highway reopens to truck traffic after flood damage; rebuilds supply chains
December 21, 2021 The Canadian PressVANCOUVER – British Columbia’s “hobbled” supply chains received a major boost with the reopening of the primary transport route for goods heading to and from Metro Vancouver, a spokesman for the trucking industry said. The Coquihalla Highway between Hope and…
Main B.C. highway to reopen to essential traffic by Monday after storms
December 16, 2021 Hina Alam and Amy Smart - THE CANADIAN PRESSVANCOUVER – A key highway link between British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and the rest of the province will reopen to essential traffic by the end of the day on Monday, five weeks after it was heavily damaged by severe rainstorms.…
B.C. flooding is the costliest severe weather event in province’s history
December 10, 2021 by Jason ContantIt’s official — the massive flooding in southern British Columbia is the costliest severe weather event in the province’s history. In a press release issued late Thursday by Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ) said…
Southwestern N.L. mayor says climate change talks needed after another dump of rain
November 30, 2021 The Canadian PressCHANNEL-PORT AUX BASQUES, N.L. – The mayor of a small town on the southwestern tip of Newfoundland says it’s time to have serious conversations about the impact of changing weather on communities like his, after another night of heavy rain.…
Flooding reported in Cape Breton and western Newfoundland as storm stalls over region
November 24, 2021 Michael MacDonald and Sarah Smellie - THE CANADIAN PRESSTorrential rain flooded basements and washed out roads and bridges in western Cape Breton and southwestern Newfoundland on Wednesday, as a huge storm spent a third day slowly trudging over Atlantic Canada. A state of emergency was declared late Tuesday in Cape…
20 evacuation centres open in B.C. for rescued motorists, residents escaping
November 16, 2021 The Canadian PressAGASSIZ, B.C. – Melanie Forsythe’s drive home from Vancouver to Hope, B.C., had her making at least five detours as torrential rain washed out a bridge, closed roads and trapped her overnight between two mudslides before a helicopter landed on…
Heavy rain sets off flooding, rocks and mudslides in southern B.C.
November 15, 2021 The Canadian PressVANCOUVER – A local state of emergency has been declared in part of British Columbia’s eastern Fraser Valley where unrelenting rainfall caused flooding, mud and rock slides and the closure of highways to and from the southern Interior. Environment…
Montreal-made website uses AI to show impacts of climate change on any address
October 14, 2021 Tara Deschamps - THE CANADIAN PRESSTORONTO – Imagine Parliament Hill blanketed in orange skies, floodwaters climbing the sides of BC Place stadium or a thick layer of smog fogging the view of Halifax from Citadel Hill. These are all scenes depicted on a website published…
Northwest Territories government to pay repair costs from spring flooding
June 30, 2021 The Canadian PressYELLOWKNIFE – The government of the Northwest Territories says it will cover the cost to repair or replace homes damaged by spring flooding. The government says 70 homes were affected in Fort Simpson, 16 to 18 in Jean Marie River…
Flooding forces 700 people out of their homes in Fort Simpson, N.W.T.
May 12, 2021 The Canadian PressFORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. – A mayor in the Northwest Territories was watching for movement in slabs of ice and snow sitting on top of one of two rivers threatening his community on Tuesday. About 700 of Fort Simpson’s 1,200 residents…
How the feds’ budget benefits the P&C industry
April 20, 2021 by Greg MeckbachInsurers are hoping it will be easier for homeowners to borrow money to raise their structures in areas at risk of flood or to replace roofs in wildfire-prone regions as a result of the federal budget announced Monday. In her…