Last year was one for the weather books in Canada. From coast to coast, disasters were ample and costly -- from destructive wildfires and floods to heat waves and tornadoes. Now, a financial toll for ...
2021 ended as it began: with disaster. Twelve months after an atmospheric river deluged California, triggering mudslides in burned landscapes and leaving a half-million people without power, a ...
An annual report from British Columbia’s auditor general says the province is owed millions by people who were ineligible for COVID-19 relief grants and that the government will spend billions on ...
The federal government will send B.C. a $207-million advance payment to help build back infrastructure and communities hit by the 2021 wildfires. “Today’s announcement is an interim payment,” said ...
After the torrential rains and floods that devastated Interior and Fraser Valley communities in November 2021, a researcher with the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA-BC ...
These are the 10 most expensive natural disasters in Canada as measured by insurance payouts, adjusted for inflation in 2021. This data is from the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
Wildfires, other natural disasters and distracted driving didn't slow down Nationwide's profits in 2021. The Columbus-based insurer and financial services company reported record operating profit of ...
Nova Scotia Auditor General Michael Pickup appears before the public accounts committee at the legislature in Halifax on November 29, 2017. Pickup, who's now British Columbia's auditor general, has ...