Disaster

Nova Scotia

Disaster kits could help save historical documents during extreme weather

In the age of increasingly violent storms, wildfires and flooding, the Council of Nova Scotia Archives is working to protect some…

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Politics

How Canadians can help disaster relief efforts in wake of Morocco earthquake

The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Morocco’s Atlas Mountains last week has left destruction and devastation in its wake. Nearly…

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Politics

Canadian military needs dedicated climate disaster force, former army commander says

A former army commander says Canada is behind its allies in not having a dedicated agency that can deploy personnel…

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Politics

Canadian army needs dedicated climate disaster force, says former top soldier

The country’s former top soldier says Canada is behind its allies in not having a dedicated agency that can deploy…

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Nova Scotia

Harold Brine, last survivor of the Springhill mine disaster, dies

Somewhere, a kilometre above Harold Brine, there was a two-year old girl who needed him. As he waited to die…

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Nova Scotia

Harold Brine, last of 19 miners rescued after 1958 Springhill mine disaster, dead at 91

Nova Scotia·New Brine, who was 26 at the time, was among 12 men who were rescued after spending six days…

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Canada

Lac-Mégantic celebrates the 10th anniversary of a railway disaster that killed 47 people

A stream of flickering lights illuminated the gloom of Lac-Mégantic in the early hours of Thursday morning as citizens marched…

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Canada

Meet the students who recorded a ‘tool for healing’ 10 years after the deadly railway disaster of Lac-Mégantic

If singer-songwriter Yvon Pion had any doubts about recording a song with schoolchildren in Lac-Mégantic, Que., to mark the 10th…

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Nova Scotia

RCMP investigates fire hydrant disaster in Town of Yarmouth

RCMP in Nova Scotia is investigating hydrant disaster in Yarmouth that flooded a home. Yarmouth Town RCMP received a report…

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Canada

Foothills County is the latest to declare an agricultural disaster as drought grips areas of Alberta

A lack of moisture early in the season, unusually high temperatures and variable winter snow led to poor growing conditions…

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