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Team Rubicon has returned to Nova Scotia to help with the recovery from last month’s devastating floods. This marks the third time in a year that volunteers with the veteran-led organization have descended on the province to provide disaster relief. Since September 2022, they’ve assisted with the cleanup after post-tropical …
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 »Justin Trudeau to meet with N.S. firefighters following devastating wildfires
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Nova Scotia Monday to meet with firefighters in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires that rocked the province this spring. According to Trudeau’s itinerary, the prime minister will visit a local fire station in the Halifax …
Read More »Almost 700 more international firefighters set to join Canada’s wildfire fight
Almost 700 firefighters from South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are set to arrive in Canada over the next two weeks to help with the unusually severe start to the wildfire season. There are already more than 500 international firefighters, incident commanders and other workers in Alberta, …
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