floods

Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River water levels are expected to stay above average into the spring, following record levels last year that led to extreme flooding in Central Canada.

"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.

This is the unfinished story of the floods that rocked central Canada in May, 2017: after helpful military members cleared out, after politicians talked about revising flood plans, some residents and homeowners are still on hold. They are still waiting to find out if they can rebuild, if they can go home, if their politicians have concrete plans for helping them in the future.

A non-partisan federal watchdog says climate change is already costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to offer support as Texas suffered catastrophic flooding following the passage of Hurricane Harvey.

Federal scientists are warning that burning fossil fuels is already driving a steep increase in the United States of heat waves, droughts and floods.

Water is rushing into Lake Ontario at "close to record-high values for this time of year," complicating an effort begun in June to drain the lake at "unprecedented" rates.

“We’ve never dealt with anything like this before,” Churchill, Man. resident Joe Stover told National Observer.

Quebec's public security minister says waters are continuing to recede from flood-stricken areas of the province.

David Samuelson stands in the bare, still-damp space in his basement that was once his son's room.

Christian Montigny's two-storey home in the central Quebec town of Yamachiche is normally a lakefront cottage — but now it's become an island.

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

More than 130 communities in the province have been hit by the flooding, with an estimated 1,500 homes affected and 850 people forced to evacuate.

The damaging flooding is coming on the heels of “extreme” weather that led to one of the wettest months in over a century, says the International Lake Ontario—St. Lawrence River Board.

"My kids are fifth generation here and it's devastating that you think all of this will be ripped from us. It's homes, families, heritage and businesses."