By Nicole Spence British Columbia’s health emergency management leaders join the World Health Organization and its global partners in planning an exercise that will prepare us for the next global public health emergency By Nicole Spence This past Sept …
By Sarah-Maude Guindon In May, the Canadian Red Cross released the report Information in Disasters illustrating how the digital landscape has evolved since its 2012 report Social Media in Emergencies. New survey results show that: Two thirds of Canadia …
By Sonia Dennis My heart aches, for all that once was, has now been changed forever. A life we called normal is now anything but… I cry for my people who have been left with nothing but rubble. The children that are displaced and sleeping in unfamili …
By Lilia Yumagulova Montréal, June 18, 2018 – Montréal is the first Canadian City to release its Resilience Strategy, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation’s “100 Resilient Cities” initiative. “Today, Montréal is the first Canadian city to present a …
OTTAWA, 24 mai 2018 – Aujourd’hui, Sécurité publique Canada a organisé la cérémonie inaugurale de remise des prix pour reconnaître des services et réalisations exceptionnelles en matière de gestion des urgences. Le prestigieux Prix pour service exempl …
Editor’s Note Fire season is upon us. In this special issue you will find exceptional content for connecting knowledge to action, exploring innovative examples from research and practice of fire and emergency management. Back in 2002, as part of …
The International Organization for Standardization has published a new edition of ISO 22300, which defines key terms used in security and resilience standards. The new ISO 22300:2018 Security and resilience – Vocabulary replaces the previous version fr …
By David Etkin, York University At one point during a presentation I was making at the 2017 CRHNet conference in Halifax, the brilliant Lily Yumagulova asked me how we could find the ‘sweet spot’ in a risk assessment[i] – the point that balances risk v …
