Posted in Flooding on November 18th, 2009 No Comments »
On November 16, media reported that eight rivers on Vancouver Island were placed on a flood warning after heavy rain swept over the B.C. coast. The City of Courtenay declared a local state of emergency, and had to implement some minor evacuations. The River Forecast Centre indicates that rivers in central Vancouver Island are at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6th, 2009 No Comments »
On November 4, CBC reported that maintenance work at Yukon Energy Corporation’s hydroelectric dam in Whitehorse inadvertently caused a power outage for most of southern Yukon for about an hour on the morning of November 5. The outage began just after 08:00 PST, affecting all customers who get their power from the Whitehorse-Aishihik-Faro hydro transmission […]
Posted in Emergency Management on November 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
On October 27, the Province of Nova Scotia signed the Good Neighbour Protocol, which is an agreement between health care unions and the provincial government that facilitates the sharing of health care human resources across the province. The agreement details how health care providers will be compensated and protected while responding to an emergency that […]