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By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted September 22, 2023 12:40 pm Descrease article font size Increase article font size The federal government is providing $9 million to help communities hit by post-tropical storm Fiona ensure they’re ready to offer residents refuge from the next big storm. The money comes …
Read More »Volunteers help rebuild dunes lost to Hurricane Fiona in Shediac, N.B. – New Brunswick
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Roughly 30 volunteers spent their Saturday morning tying down Christmas trees on Belliveau Beach in Shediac in an effort to restore the dune system that was wiped out during Hurricane Fiona. Jolyne Hébert of the Shediac Bay Watershed Association, which held the …
Read More »Matching Fiona relief donations from Ottawa not yet delivered to Red Cross
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 30, 2022 11:16 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Public Safety Canada says it hasn’t yet delivered its promised funds to match donations for the Canadian Red Cross’s hurricane Fiona relief efforts. An email from the federal department says work …
Read More »N.S. families who lost their homes to Fiona scramble to find a place to live
On the night post-tropical storm Fiona hit Nova Scotia, Dana Boutilier woke up at home to water dripping on her face from the ceiling above. She quickly realized something was very wrong. She jumped out of bed to find herself ankle deep in water. “As I proceeded to leave the room to go …
Read More »About 2,900 homes and businesses on P.E.I. still without power 19 days after Fiona
Maritime Electric, P.E.I.’s main electrical utility, continued the hard slog of restoring mostly individual power outages on Tuesday, returning power to about 600 customers 19 days after Fiona knocked it out. Immediately following the post-tropical storm on Sept. 24 electricity was out for the whole province. With the work done …
Read More »Nova Scotia plans review after some generators failed at public housing buildings during Fiona
When post-tropical storm Fiona knocked out power to Alderney Manor in Dartmouth, N.S., the people who live in the 198-unit public housing complex expected the backup generator on the roof to kick in. But it didn’t. According to the Department of Housing, the automatic transfer switch failed, leaving the hundreds …
Read More »18,000 Maritime Electric customers still without power 10 days after Fiona
If your data or internet is limited in the aftermath of post-tropical storm Fiona, click here for the CBC Lite version of the P.E.I. site. As the 10th day after post-tropical storm Fiona dawns on P.E.I. life is in some ways returning to normal — but about 18,000 Maritime Electric customers are waking up …
Read More »Trudeau to visit Port aux Basques for first-hand look at Fiona damage
Homes that stood for more than 80 years in Port aux Basques were destroyed in a matter of hours by a storm surge from post-tropical storm Fiona. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will visit the community Wednesday to tour the damage. (Ashley Brauweiler/CBC) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Port …
Read More »Hurricane Fiona track veers back toward Atlantic Canada
The Atlantic provinces could be hit hard by Fiona this weekend, which is currently a Category 3 hurricane. CBC meteorologist Tina Simpkin said Hurricane Fiona appeared to change its track overnight. “Yesterday it looked like it was going to stay off the coast of Atlantic Canada, today it’s moving back to …
Read More »Charles "Chuck" Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, died on Friday at 81 (Fiona Kelliher/Mercury News)
Fiona Kelliher / Mercury News: Charles “Chuck” Geschke, who co-founded Adobe in 1982 with John Warnock and helped develop PDF technology, died on Friday at 81 — Survived kidnapping at gunpoint — Charles “Chuck” Geschke, co-founder of the iconic Silicon Valley company Adobe Inc. and prominent cheerleader of downtown San …
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