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Brigette DePape and her husband Kari Rodriguez made New Year’s resolutions to reduce their household emissions. They decided to focus on transportation, home efficiency and composting. “We wanted to do something together as a family,” DePape said. DePape, a longtime climate activist, then came across the Live Net Zero Challenge. …
Read More »42% of wildfire evacuations occur in Indigenous communities, researcher
While wildfire season and evacuation alerts have become par for the course for many communities across Canada, for Indigenous people its far too frequent. “It’s a really disproportionate impact when Indigenous people only make up 5 per cent of the population in Canada but 42 per cent of wildfire evacuation …
Read More »Canada plans to finalize emissions cap by mid-2024: Guilbeault – National
Canada will likely publish the final regulations of a plan to cap and cut greenhouse gases from the oil and gas sector by mid-2024, its environment minister told Reuters on Thursday. The government will table draft regulations on the plan by October and expects to publish the final regulations by …
Read More »Climate change: Correlation between wildfires, flooding in Nova Scotia
The fingerprints of climate change are all over the supercharged weather witnessed this year in Nova Scotia — and the rest of the country — from raging wildfires to devastating flooding. A series of punishing thunderstorms dumped up to 250 millimetres of rain on Nova Scotia this weekend, killing at …
Read More »‘No other obvious federal programs’: Feds warn provinces to apply for Chignecto Isthmus funding
Federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic Leblanc is warning provincial governments in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia that federal funding to help protect the Chignecto Isthmus may not be available should they fail to meet a Wednesday deadline for a federal program. “There is no other obvious federal programs that would …
Read More »B.C. sets all-time record for area burned with months left in wildfire season
Descrease article font size Increase article font size British Columbia’s 2023 wildfire season has set a destructive new record, with more hectares scorched than in any year on record. The BC Wildfire Service said Monday that 1,181 fires across the province have burned more than 1.393 million hectares to date …
Read More »64% of Canadians have air conditioning. Is it enough for climate change? – National
Climate scientists proclaimed July 3, 2023, the hottest day in human record keeping. Canada has seen a swathe of heat warnings in the past week, warning of elevated risks for heat-related illnesses and air quality. And the return of El Niño, a naturally occurring climate pattern, is bringing even warmer …
Read More »Increase in tick-borne illnesses directly linked to climate change: Ontario top doctor
TORONTO — Ontario’s top doctor expects to see a growing number of cases of three types of tick-borne illness in the province, in addition to Lyme disease — a spread he says is directly linked to climate change. A new regulation that takes effect this weekend requires health-care providers in …
Read More »Ottawa to unveil climate change plan amid record wildfire season – National
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 27, 2023 6:50 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s plan to make communities more resilient to climate change is coming Tuesday. The final version of the national adaptation strategy is expected to be similar to the draft published last …
Read More »Is your home ready for the surprising number of tornadoes in Canada?
11:50 Tornadoes: Is your home ready for extreme weather? It was the May long weekend in 2022 and Rob Garrard was at his brewery in Uxbridge, Ont., when he heard something he will never forget. “It’s just this really high-pitched, crazy wind sound,” described Garrard. Moments later a tornado hit …
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