Tag: resilience
FCM President’s Statement on Infrastructure Investment
Jenny Gerbasi, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and Deputy Mayor of Winnipeg, issued the following statement after addressing delegates at the...
Report Addresses Flood Resilience in Bow River Basin
The Government of Alberta has begun implementing the advice from a report that identifies ways to improve flood resilience in Calgary and better manage...
Portraits of Resilience: Teens Take on Climate Change
Portraits of Resilience: Teens Take on Climate Change is a new Ontario Science Centre installation that documents the effects of climate change from the perspective...
Global Mayors Conference Declare Climate Action
Closing the XII Metropolis World Congress and the 2017 General Assembly of the Association Internationale des Maires Francophones (AIMF), the mayors of the world's...
Toronto Appoints New Chief Resilience Officer
The City of Toronto has appointed Elliott Cappell as chief resilience officer (CRO), a new position created to lead city-wide resilience-building efforts to help...
FCM Announces Advisors for Municipal Climate Resilience
The Government of Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) announced today a new initiative connecting municipalities with local environmental experts to assist...
A Climate Change Strategy for Canada’s Coastal Communities
We have come a long way in understanding how the impacts of climate change affect Canada’s coasts and what to do about them. In...
Ont. Receives Over $93M for Water Infrastructure
The Government of Canada has announced several water infrastructure projects across Ontario, totaling more than $93 million in federal investment.
Funding includes $2.6 million for...
Markham: Insurance Board Should Consider City Flood Control
The City of Markham, Ontario, has urged the insurance industry to consider city flood control measures when setting home insurance rates.
Over the past three...
Insurance Co. Partners to Build More Flood-Resilient Communities
At a multi-stakeholder roundtable discussion, it was agreed that to improve our flood resiliency, Canadians needed the following conditions to be in place: Canadians understand the risk that overland and urban flood presents to their homes, business and communities
