With the onset of the fall season, apple picking is a popular activity. However, one local farm says this is one of the toughest years […]
Tag: Climate Change
Record rainfall in GTA signals a future with frequent severe storms: expert
Edwin Steele’s heart sank when he checked the livestream from the security cameras inside his Mississauga business. Saturday opened with partly sunny skies in many […]
Parts of Ontario set for more torrential rain, hot stretch continuing
Parts of Ontario are set to see heavy rain Friday as thunderstorms move in, a federal agency is warning, as days of humid heat threaten […]
‘Not OK’: Closing only pool in Ontario town points to growing climate challenge
Randy Marriage was a regular at his hometown’s only pool when he was growing up, cooling off with friends on summer days. His grandchildren won’t […]
Definition of 100-year storms ‘seems to have flown right out the window’: Toronto official
Toronto officials said they’ll be reviewing the city’s response to intense rainfall earlier this week that resulted in dozens of cars getting stranded on major […]
Toronto flooding a ‘significant event,’ need to step up climate change fight: Trudeau
Massive flooding that hit the Greater Toronto Area on Tuesday was a “significant event,” underscoring the need to step up Canada’s fight against climate change, […]
Utility cuts off 74-year-old Toronto senior, powerless in heat wave
Maxine Stirling Dawe tries to stay cool in her one-bedroom apartment but it’s not easy. With no power in the midst of a summer heat […]
Ontario’s strawberry season ‘will probably end early’ given extreme heat
Its was a busy afternoon at one of Reesor Farm Market’s strawberry fields on Thursday. Normally, owner John Reesor sees about 1,800 customers a week […]
Ontario is now Canada’s tornado hot spot — and the season is getting longer
When Dave Sills and the Northern Tornadoes Project first began their work in 2017, they assumed they’d be gathering data to confirm their suspicions: that […]
Gas-powered lawn equipment debate boils over at council in London, Ont.
A debate at London city council surrounding an already pulled back curfew on gas-powered lawn and gardening equipment boiled over Tuesday afternoon. The civic works […]