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On February 18, Sécurité publique Québec announced that disaster victims from several Quebec municipalities may be eligible to financial aid following floods on December 3, 2009, and January 25-26, 2010; a landslide in June 2009; heavy rains, floods, thunderstorms and violent winds occurring in June, July and August 2009; and a benzene leak in Québec […]

On February 20 and 22, media reported that the Government of New Brunswick announced a recovery program for residents, small businesses and municipalities that sustained damage from a severe storm surge on January 2 and 3 on the southeast coast of Westmorland County. The storm caused water levels to increase by 1.7 metres and resulted […]

On February 22, Manitoba’s Water Stewardship issued its first flood outlook for spring 2010. The first outlook calls for significant flooding on the Red River in southern Manitoba, but anticipated levels of 0.3 to 0.9 metres (one to three feet) lower than last year. The run-off on the Red River in Manitoba is expected to be […]

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CBC reported that a fire inside the Yellow Quill First Nation, Saskatchewan, water treatment plant on January 30 has rendered it inoperable. Experts were called in to see if the existing system could be revived. Otherwise, the band was preparing options to supply water to residents. In the interim, a booster station at the south […]

The Telegram reported that on January 31, the Government of Canada announced funding of $13.8 million from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s Atlantic Innovation Fund for research and development projects in Newfoundland and Labrador. The funding includes an estimated $5.3 million for C-CORE, which is an integrity and security of critical infrastructure project. This project […]

On January 14, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-005 to bring attention to multiple critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader 9.2 and Acrobat 9.2 for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX, and Adobe Reader 8.1.7 and Acrobat 8.1.7 for Windows and Macintosh. Adobe categorizes this as a critical update. CCIRC recommends that […]

Further to Daily Infrastructure Report DIR10-008, later on January 12, CTV reported that the flood danger appeared to have passed for communities on Vancouver Island hit by a rain and melting snow. The B.C. River Forecast Centre downgraded the flood warnings for the Courtenay, Comox, Nanaimo and Campbell River areas to high streamflow advisories. The […]

On January 13, Public Safety Canada’s Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre (CCIRC) released advisory AV10-004 to bring attention to a critical patch update for Oracle products. The vendor “strongly recommends that customers apply CPU fixes as soon as possible” due to the threat posed by a successful attack. CCIRC recommends that administrators identify affected products, […]

CTV reported that the Mayor of Courtenay, B.C., declared a state of emergency late on January 11 due to flooding of the Browns, Tsolum and Puntledge rivers on Vancouver Island. The area was pounded with heavy rains on January 11 from a tropical weather system originating from Hawaii that hit Canada’s west coast. A total […]