The federal disaster aid program will soon be made conditional, requiring future applications to show adaptation to climate change in order to be eligible, said Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair, as the government launches a review of the program. Blair was in British Columbia this week to provide the second instalment of disaster aid for the…

Canada’s emergency preparedness minister is returning to the epicentre of flooding that devastated British Columbia’s Fraser Valley in November 2021. Bill Blair, along with B.C. Minister of Emergency Management Bowinn Ma and Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens, is set to take part in an announcement today on federal disaster recovery funding for the province. A series…

A federal government report suggests that homeowners who experience flooding but had declined to buy flood insurance should not receive aid from its program established to help the provinces and territories (PTs) respond to large-scale natural disasters. “Some PTs are moving toward refusing claims when someone is uninsured but flood insurance is available,” said the…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Sept. 21 offered a competing short-term government funding bill, just as House Democrats passed a stopgap measure that also suspends the debt limit until after the 2022 election. The bill from McConnell and Shelby does not include a debt ceiling suspension, as Republicans have urged Democrats—the majority party—to raise the…