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 ...

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 ...

Now, “building back better” with added protection will replace “restoring to pre-disaster conditions” as the standard approach to recovery. Investments in resilience will now reduce the risk of future ...