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 ...

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 ...

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 ...