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Toronto is vulnerable to climate-fuelled floods. What will make it more resilient?

Toronto is vulnerable to climate-fuelled floods. What will make it more resilient?

TORONTO — Toronto city councillors, who presided last week over a city of inundated transit stations, roadways and basements, are set to discuss how to make the metropolis more resilient to climate-fuelled floods.
Wildfires plague the West amid a scorching heat wave and high winds

Wildfires plague the West amid a scorching heat wave and high winds

RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — At least a half-dozen homes lay in ruins Monday after one of many dangerous wildfires in the West suddenly swept into a Southern California neighborhood during a blistering heat wave.
Weather agency warns of B.C. tornado risk, storms could also bring high winds, hail

Weather agency warns of B.C. tornado risk, storms could also bring high winds, hail

Environment Canada is warning about possible tornados in British Columbia's central Interior, where severe thunderstorms could also bring heavy rain and hailstones the size of nickels.
Calls for Maya Rudolph to reprise her Kamala Harris on 'SNL' are flooding social media

Calls for Maya Rudolph to reprise her Kamala Harris on 'SNL' are flooding social media

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Maya Rudolph's “funt,” aka Vice President Kamala Harris , be back on “Saturday Night Live?” Speculation has been running hot since Sunday, when President Joe Biden dropped his election news, but the “SNL” alum is a busy actor the
No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor

No prison for a nursing home owner who sent 800 residents to ride out a hurricane in squalor

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Louisiana businessman who sent more than 800 elderly residents from his seven nursing homes to ride out Hurricane Ida in a crowded, ill-equipped warehouse pleaded no contest to 15 criminal counts Monday and was sentenced to three
'A wonderful feeling': Wildfire evacuation order ends for 7,000 from Labrador City

'A wonderful feeling': Wildfire evacuation order ends for 7,000 from Labrador City

LABRADOR CITY, N.L. — Labrador City residents who were ordered to evacuate last week after the reignition of a once-smouldering fire near the town were allowed to return home Monday.
Residents back home after evacuations in Williams Lake, B.C.

Residents back home after evacuations in Williams Lake, B.C.

WILLIAMS LAKE, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — A fast-moving wildfire on the edge of the City of Williams Lake in British Columbia's central Interior triggered evacuations as water bombers swooped low over the community over the weekend.
Tactical evacuations, water use warnings issued as wildfire threatens Williams Lake

Tactical evacuations, water use warnings issued as wildfire threatens Williams Lake

A wildfire burning near Williams Lake, B.C, has led the city to declare a state of local emergency.
Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after flood took son

Mom wants quicker reform on disaster preparations, one year after flood took son

HALIFAX — The mother of a boy who died a year ago in a Nova Scotia flood says her grief returns daily, along with frustration over what she considers the province's slow pace in reforming its preparations for climate disasters.
Rescuers search for dozens missing after flooding and a bridge collapse in China kill at least 25

Rescuers search for dozens missing after flooding and a bridge collapse in China kill at least 25

BEIJING (AP) — Rescuers on Monday were searching for dozens missing after heavy rains caused flash flooding and a bridge collapse in different parts of China, killing at least 25 people.
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