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Floods, fires, heat waves all increase emergency needs, while also threatening services

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

OTTAWA - A wall of flames met David Matear when he finally stepped outside of the downtown Fort McMurray hospital, after the final patient was hurried out of the building and into a waiting bus.

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

With the number of climate-related emergencies expected to worsen, some parts of the country will need to move quickly to disaster-proof life-saving infrastructure, experts say.

Along Canadian coastlines and waterfronts, increased erosion, storm surge and rising seas are putting more homes at risk of flooding. However, an East Coast researcher has found many people oppose flood-risk mapping because they fear their real estate will be devalued.

Infrastructural challenges in remote First Nations communities, the riches of Honey and Barry Sherman and the U.S. presidential race.

Two wildfires in B.C.'s southern interior caused more than $720 million in insured losses last year, making them the most costly insured extreme weather event the province has ever seen, according to a new report.

Insured losses from extreme weather events exceeded $3 billion in Canada for the second straight year, according to a new report, highlighting concerns about the growing cost of weather-related disasters.

This is one in a series of articles from KFF Health News and The New York Times on the cost of long-term care.