Disaster relief is an expensive business. Consider the extensive flooding that struck British Columbia a year ago this week, with estimated recovery costs of $3.9-billion. Canadian taxpayers will pay ...

OTTAWA, ON, Jan. 29, 2025 /CNW/ - In recent years, Canadians have witnessed the rising frequency and severity of extreme weather events, like floods and wildland fires, destroy homes, businesses, and ...

TOKYO — Maybe they are unsung heroes. But their footprints are hard to ignore on U.S. bases in Japan and Okinawa. Family housing. Troops’ barracks. Office buildings. Schools. If those need to be built ...

Canada’s disaster relief program should restrict payments toward repairing or rebuilding structures on floodplains and other high-risk areas, concluded a report by a federal advisory panel released ...

The modernized version of the program, known as Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements or DFAA, comes into effect on April 1. DFAA has sent tens of millions of dollars to the Northwest Territories ...

If there's one overriding fact about engineering in the 21st century, it's this: Everything is connected. The silos that once pigeonholed engineering specialties are fast disappearing, and the ...

Building back better is now a key feature in the federal government’s updated Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA) program, released Wednesday. The updated DFAA, expected to take effect ...

Now, “building back better” with added protection will replace “restoring to pre-disaster conditions” as the standard approach to recovery. Investments in resilience will now reduce the risk of future ...