Tag: emergency preparedness week

  • Toronto’s Response to 2013 Storms & Future Weather Emergencies: Give Your Input May 9-30, 2014

    Extreme weather events occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ranging from severe flooding to ice storm havoc in 2013. “Research shows extended cold snaps like we’ve seen this winter could be a direct result of climate change…. …while the climate (or average global temperature) of the Earth heats up, the weather in every region won’t necessarily…

  • Emergency Preparedness Week in Ontario, May 1-7

    As we all know, anything catastrophic can happen anytime and anywhere. And time and chance happen to everyone. Thus, it would be prudent to be prepared for emergency situations. Emergency Preparedness Week as a joint municipal, federal and provincial effort has the following two-pronged approach: 1. Make you more aware of the importance of individual…

  • Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada

    Double disasters of nature recently occurred in Japan as the powerful earthquake of magnitude 8.9 and the huge tsunami surging inland, causing massive destruction. In the past 100 years, Canada has experienced at least 9 major earthquakes that have registered between 7 and 8 on the Richter scale.