extreme weather

More than one year after rescuers swam from home to home in a low-income neighbourhood devastated by flooding in Grand Forks, B.C., some residents say they were rattled to learn the property buyouts they've been waiting for will be based on post-disaster values.

Even with provinces and Ottawa not always seeing eye-to-eye these days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Friday, May 31, 2019, that his federal Liberal government would keep working with municipalities to deal with the effects of extreme weather, housing shortages and climate change.

The mayors of Canada’s largest cities want federal funding for disaster resilience topped up and loosened, after a wild 2018 that saw record wildfires and cold snaps, wind storms, flash floods, heat waves and other freak weather events.

The last two years have been literally off-the-charts. Take a look...

Hydro Ottawa says more than 170,000 customers were without power early this morning as a result of the twister, which blew through Ottawa, Dunrobin, Ont., and Gatineau, Que., late Friday afternoon.

Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of Atlantic Canada's major ferry terminals, airports and the Confederation Bridge.

A tsunami warning issued for coastal British Columbia was cancelled Tuesday morning after people living along parts of the province’s coast evacuated to higher ground when a powerful earthquake struck off Alaska.

​If it seems as if the weather's getting weirder, you're not wrong. An index of extreme weather in Canada compiled by the insurance industry backs that up.

"Our climate is changing, and it's affecting Canadians across the country," said the department in an end-of-year news release sent out Thursday morning.

The Province of British Columbia apparently knew what to do to lessen the intensity of wildfires by 2017. The reports they'd commissioned in 2003 after the catastrophic Kelowna wildfires were explicit. Remove small trees and other burnable debris and do controlled burns.

Air Canada says about 100 Canadians who had been barred by local authorities from a flight leaving Turks and Caicos will now be allowed to fly home.

A Quebec man living on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin is calling hurricane Irma the most terrifying experience of his life.

The stench of mold was overwhelming. Their were maggots in the food. But somehow, like thousands of others, Hilton Kelley and his wife Marie will find a way to move on.

Bring on the sponges, writes David Suzuki — floods are expensive, we're making them worse, and more are sure to come.

The Weather Network released its summer forecast Tuesday, and chief meteorologist Chris Scott said it may feel like being on a teeter−totter.