SFU: Report calls for integrating emissions reduction and climate adaptation practices
Press Release Report detailing best practices for climate mitigation and adaptation has been endorsed by Canadian professional associations December 18, 2018 A new Simon Fraser University report calls for governments…
Statement: Nunatukavut says Province of NL’s Lack of Response to the Independent Expert Advisory Committee Recommendations on Muskrat Falls Outrageous
Press Release HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, LABRADOR, December 17, 2018 – NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC) President Todd Russell today issued the following statement: “NCC is extremely disappointed in the lack of…
SK Government: Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Report Released
Press Release December 17, 2018 The Ministry of Government Relations has released a Saskatchewan Flood and Natural Hazard Risk Assessment that provincial and local officials can use as an initial…
PSF Statement Re: Broughton Archipelago Agreement
Press Release On Friday, it was announced that up to seventeen open-net-pen fish farms in B.C.’s Broughton Archipelago will be phased out by 2023 under a new agreement between First…
Alberta gets federal disaster mitigation funding
Press Release Dec 17, 2018 More than two dozen Alberta communities are getting new and replacement flood mapping to support emergency response and long-term planning. The federal government is providing…
Federal support for 18 Alberta flood mitigation projects
Press Release From: Public Safety Canada Flooding is Canada’s costliest and most frequent natural disaster. Today, Randy Boissonnault, Member of Parliament for Edmonton Centre and Special Advisor to the Prime…
ICLR releases new book ‘Cities adapt to extreme weather: Celebrating local leadership’
Press Release December 17, 2018 TORONTO: Local governments are taking action to reduce the risk to Canadians from extreme weather. Cities adapt to extreme weather: Celebrating local leadership is the…
Statement by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna, on the conclusion of negotiations of the Paris Agreement rulebook: Canada supports momentum on Paris Agreement rules
Press Release December 15, 2018 – Katowice, Poland “Today demonstrates that multilateralism works to tackle a clear global problem—climate change. Three years ago almost to the day, some 200 countries came together…
Government, First Nations chart path for aquaculture in Broughton Archipelago
Press Release Dec. 14, 2018 VICTORIA – A ground-breaking government-to-government process has delivered recommendations that will protect and restore wild salmon stocks, allow an orderly transition plan for open-pen finfish…
TSB calls for adequate aircraft de-icing equipment, greater compliance with de-icing regulations at remote northern airports
Press Release Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 14 December 2018 – Today, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) is making two recommendations aimed at preventing flight crews operating in remote northern areas…
