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Cision Canada
23-05-2025
- Climate
- Cision Canada
Canadians should expect another active hurricane season Français
DARTMOUTH, NS, May 23, 2025 /CNW/ - During the upcoming hurricane season, Canadians can rely on state-of-the-art weather forecasting systems from Environment and Climate Change Canada. These systems provide timely and reliable weather information and alerts in advance of approaching tropical storms and hurricanes. Early warnings will give Canadians time to prepare and protect themselves, their loved ones, and their properties in the event of a storm. The hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, and this season is expected to be above-average for tropical storm activity. Experts are predicting 13 to 19 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean basin. Environment and Climate Change Canada encourages everyone to prepare before the season begins. Meteorologists at the Canadian Hurricane Centre conduct 24/7 monitoring and hazard prediction year-round. They focus on storms with the potential to affect Canada and its waters, track storm paths, predict intensity, and issue warnings. They also provide information to help provincial and territorial partners and emergency management officials to lessen the impacts of tropical cyclones and hurricanes in Canadian communities. It is now more important than ever to get prepared. There has been an increase in Category 3 to Category 5 hurricanes over the past four decades, and with climate change, the intensity of the strongest hurricanes is expected to increase. Quotes "Hurricanes could become more intense due to global warming. I encourage all Canadians to prepare ahead of the season by accessing available resources and regularly checking the WeatherCAN app when making plans this summer to help keep themselves and their families safe and secure during hurricane season." – The Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Quick facts Find safety planning tips, track maps, and get other useful information at access current forecasts and alerts on Canada's weather website, and download the WeatherCAN app (available for Android and iOS devices). On average, three or four tropical cyclone events impact Canada each hurricane season, with one or two making impact on Canadian soil and two or three threatening offshore waters. Hurricanes are typically of greater concern later in the season, as that is when our waters reach their peak warmth. Hurricane Fiona in 2022 was the most costly extreme weather event ever recorded in Atlantic Canada in terms of insured damages (source). Human-caused climate change is raising the temperature of the ocean and may have intensified hurricane activity over the Atlantic Ocean. Environment and Natural Resources in Canada's Facebook page Environment and Climate Change Canada's LinkedIn page Environment and Climate Change Canada's Instagram page SOURCE Environment and Climate Change Canada
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Canadians should expect another active hurricane season
DARTMOUTH, NS, May 23, 2025 /CNW/ - During the upcoming hurricane season, Canadians can rely on state-of-the-art weather forecasting systems from Environment and Climate Change Canada. These systems provide timely and reliable weather information and alerts in advance of approaching tropical storms and hurricanes. Early warnings will give Canadians time to prepare and protect themselves, their loved ones, and their properties in the event of a storm. The hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, and this season is expected to be above-average for tropical storm activity. Experts are predicting 13 to 19 named storms, six to 10 hurricanes, and three to five major hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean basin. Environment and Climate Change Canada encourages everyone to prepare before the season begins. Meteorologists at the Canadian Hurricane Centre conduct 24/7 monitoring and hazard prediction year-round. They focus on storms with the potential to affect Canada and its waters, track storm paths, predict intensity, and issue warnings. They also provide information to help provincial and territorial partners and emergency management officials to lessen the impacts of tropical cyclones and hurricanes in Canadian communities. It is now more important than ever to get prepared. There has been an increase in Category 3 to Category 5 hurricanes over the past four decades, and with climate change, the intensity of the strongest hurricanes is expected to increase. Quotes "Hurricanes could become more intense due to global warming. I encourage all Canadians to prepare ahead of the season by accessing available resources and regularly checking the WeatherCAN app when making plans this summer to help keep themselves and their families safe and secure during hurricane season."– The Honourable Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Quick facts Find safety planning tips, track maps, and get other useful information at access current forecasts and alerts on Canada's weather website, and download the WeatherCAN app (available for Android and iOS devices). On average, three or four tropical cyclone events impact Canada each hurricane season, with one or two making impact on Canadian soil and two or three threatening offshore waters. Hurricanes are typically of greater concern later in the season, as that is when our waters reach their peak warmth. Hurricane Fiona in 2022 was the most costly extreme weather event ever recorded in Atlantic Canada in terms of insured damages (source). Human-caused climate change is raising the temperature of the ocean and may have intensified hurricane activity over the Atlantic Ocean. Associated links Government of Canada Weather Information Get Prepared for Hurricanes Canada's National Adaptation Strategy: Building Resilient Communities and a Strong Economy The Canadian Hurricane Centre: Helping Residents Stay Safe Since 1987 General Hurricane Information Predicting and Alerting Coastal Flooding Canadian Hurricane Centre's Seasonal Outlook Presentation on Facebook Environment and Climate Change Canada's X page Environment and Climate Change Canada's Facebook page Environment and Natural Resources in Canada's Facebook page Environment and Climate Change Canada's LinkedIn page Environment and Climate Change Canada's Instagram page SOURCE Environment and Climate Change Canada View original content: Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
National Post
14-05-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Ivison: Carney's cabinet has too many 'downtown Toronto, urban progressives'
Article content In this week's show, John Ivison is joined by regular guests Eugene Lang and Ian Brodie to take a deep dive into Mark Carney's post-election cabinet shuffle. Article content Article content Brodie, a former chief of staff to prime minister Stephen Harper, said one concern he has is the predominance of 'downtown Toronto, urban progressives' in the new cabinet. 'It's an almost obsessively Toronto-focused cabinet,' he said, noting that excluding the one Liberal elected in Calgary (Corey Hogan) was a 'missed opportunity'. Article content Brodie said that new natural resources minister Tim Hodgson is an improvement on his predecessor (Jonathan Wilkinson). Article content 'But the problem is not that the Natural Resources department has been standing in the way of natural resource development in this country; the problem has been the environmental regulations that come out of the Environment Ministry. The Environment Ministry is huge now and much larger than it was 10 years ago. It has many more levers over the Canadian economy and the people in the Environment Department seem to be quite prepared to use all of them. The fact is that we have basically, to be blunt, the kind of a standard issue, downtown Toronto, social justice activist, kind of do-gooder, NGO type person as minister (Julie Dabrusin). Article content 'There is a long history of 'we have to keep oil and gas in the ground and keep Alberta and Saskatchewan from growing if we're going to save the planet'. If that's the approach of the government, then we're in for a very difficult couple of years.' Article content Lang, a former chief of staff to two Liberal defence ministers, said his first impression is that there are far too many Trudeau-era ministers in this cabinet. Article content 'I count 11 out of 28 – about 40 per cent of this cabinet are former Trudeau-era ministers. There is no reason for that. Mr. Carney owes none of these people anything. And he had an opportunity here to really show change in this cabinet, and he chose not to,' he said. 'It's more than about optics. It's about competence. The last Trudeau government's great failing was its relative lack of competence in governing. I don't know how you improve the competence in your governing when 40 per cent of your ministers are from a government that was less than competent.' Article content Brodie said that, while the cabinet does look like a rearrangement of the chairs of people Carney inherited, there is 'deep experience' on the front bench with ministers like Dominic LeBlanc on the Canada-U.S. trade and security file. Article content Lang took aim at the appointment of 10 secretaries of state, who will report to ministers on specific files (for example, Ruby Sahota has the responsibility to combat crime, reporting to justice minister, Sean Fraser). Article content 'There seems to be this sort of narrative going around that secretaries of state are people that you can get focused on a specific issue within a portfolio and deliver results. That's nonsense in my experience. I once worked for a secretary of state a long time ago. One of the biggest challenges a secretary of state has in the Canadian government is getting senior officials in their department to return their calls. There is a real competition here that goes on between secretaries of state and ministers and their offices. Secretaries of state have no legal authorities. They usually have no program authorities. I can't think of a secretary of state in the long history of our secretaries of state that has meaningfully advanced an important file in government. I've never seen it,' he said. Article content Carney has said he is bringing back a more traditional cabinet-style government. Article content Lang said that every prime minister in recent history has said this – and none have. Article content 'I think the last time we had a functioning cabinet government in the old sense was probably under (Jean) Chrétien 30 years ago. (Carney) says he wants to run a team. He says he's going to empower ministers. Well, we'll see,' he said. Article content Lang said that reorganizing ministries and creating new agencies is going to require 'a lot of legislative bandwidth.' Article content '(The Liberals) made an election platform commitment to create a new organization called the Defence Procurement Agency. That sounds innocuous. It's not. That's a massive, complex machinery of government change, involving three or four departments. And it'll be interesting to see if they even have the stomach to try and carry that out in a minority government context. Machinery of government changes, in my view, rarely yield the claimed benefits. They tend to be very painful things to execute. They tend to take years, if not decades. So, one wonders whether we're stuck with the basic structure we have, whether we like it or not, because of the pain and the effort that's needed to make major changes,' he said. Article content Brodie talked about the need to reform the bureaucratic side of government Article content 'The next step ordinarily would be a reorganization in the Privy Council Office, the central agency closest to the prime minister that sends out the instructions to the rest of government and checks to make sure whether anybody's paying attention to those instructions, he said, noting that reform would include the deputy minister cohort. Article content 'In my view, it's not so much that the deputy minister group is weak. I know there are some very good people there. (But) it's just way too big. There are a bunch of fake deputy ministers floating around – people with high falutin titles and pay scales, all the accoutrements of the deputy minister group, all the status in Ottawa that comes with the title 'deputy minister', like being the viceroy of some central Europeans satrapy during the Holy Roman Empire. Article content 'It's a big deal when you go to the Rideau Club as a deputy minister, unless you're the deputy minister of something that doesn't really exist and your staff is four or five people stuck away in some obscure office building. And Ottawa is full of them. Frankly, the Privy Council Office itself is full of them. If I were advising on transition or on the machine of government, I would say the next step is to just get rid of that and streamline your senior civil service team in order to focus authority on a handful of people who can make things work for you. Article content 'Mr. Carney knows all these people. They all know him. He's as well placed as any new prime minister is to make changes in this group and I expect there'll be big changes. But if he doesn't make them between now and the end of parliament, you're wasting the summer opportunity for new deputies, new ministers, and a streamlined team to get things moving for the fall session of parliament. He cannot waste the summer with ministers not knowing exactly what they're supposed to do or with deputy ministers worried about whether they're going to be shuffled in August or September.' Article content Lang agreed, saying the same principle applies to assistant deputy ministers (the next rung down in the public service). Article content 'You could blow out 40 per cent of the assistant deputy ministers in this town and no Canadian would notice. The Privy Council Office, the prime minister's department, has 1,400 officials working in it. Now when Ian was in the Prime Minister's Office, there were 700 people working there. When I was in government, before that, there were 400 people working there. You could cut that organization in half tomorrow and nobody would notice,' he said. Article content
CBC
13-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Here are the new faces in Prime Minister Carney's cabinet
Prime Minister Mark Carney overhauled his cabinet Tuesday in the wake of last month's election. The Liberals increased their seat count to 170, falling just short of a majority. The larger caucus gave the prime minister plenty of fresh faces and veteran MPs to choose from. Carney seems to have opted to shake things up, adding 24 new faces that previously haven't held cabinet portfolios. Of the 24, 15 are ministers and nine are secretaries of state — a sort of junior cabinet position. While a majority of Carney's ministers had been part of Justin Trudeau's Liberal caucus, 13 of them are first-time MPs. Ten former ministers were also dropped from their roles. You can read more about them here. Here is a look at the new faces joining the Liberal front bench. Julie Dabrusin In his first, albeit brief, cabinet, Carney didn't appoint any ministers who had endorsed Chrystia Freeland in the Liberal leadership race — though he did give Freeland herself a spot. But in naming Julie Dabrusin minister of environment and climate change, Carney added a cabinet member who had backed one of his leadership rivals. The representative for Toronto-Danforth gets her first cabinet portfolio after nearly a decade as an MP. In April's vote, Dabrusin trounced her NDP opponent in former leader Jack Layton's old riding. Previously, Dabrusin had held a few parliamentary secretary positions, including to ministers of environment and natural resources. Evan Solomon The former broadcaster joins cabinet in his first foray into elected politics. Solomon, who had previously worked for both CBC and CTV, is taking on the new role of minister of artificial intelligence. Solomon won his first election last month in the riding of Toronto Centre. In 2015, CBC fired the then host of Power & Politics and The House, following reports he was brokering art deals with people he interviewed as a journalist — including Carney. More recently, Solomon worked for the Eurasia Group as the publisher for GZERO Media. Eleanor Olszewski The newly elected representative for the riding of Edmonton Centre will be Alberta's sole representative at the cabinet table. Carney tapped Olszewski to be minister of emergency management and community resilience. She will also manage the department known as Prairies Economic Development Canada. Olszewski ran for the Liberals in 2015 and 2019 in the neighbouring riding of Edmonton Strathcona, but fell short both times. She now joins the Liberal caucus representing the riding previously held by former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault. Mandy Gull-Masty Mandy Gull-Masty, former grand chief of the Grand Council of the Crees, is the new minister of Indigenous services. The newly elected representative for the Quebec riding of Abitibi-Baie-James-Nunavik-Eeyou is one of three Indigenous MPs on Carney's front bench. Gull-Masty was first elected to public office in 2014, serving as deputy chief of her home community, the Cree First Nation of Waswanipi, where she held the finance, administration, housing and mining negotiation portfolios, according to the Grand Council of the Crees. She was elected as the first female Grand Chief of the Cree Nation Government in Quebec in 2021. Shafqat Ali The MP for Brampton-Chinguacousy Park enters cabinet for the first time as president of the Treasury Board. Ali is one of the veteran MPs in Carney's cabinet who has previously not held a portfolio. He has been an MP since 2021, and has been a member of a few House committees. Unlike some of the other MPs joining cabinet who had been part of caucus before the last election, Ali hadn't held a parliamentary secretary position — sometimes seen as a stepping stone to cabinet. But Ali has been quite active as a backbencher, joining over a dozen parliamentary groups and associations. He now takes over a role that is largely responsible for overseeing the federal public service. Ali was one of a number of MPs to have toured the West Bank last year and subsequently raised concerns about Israeli settler violence in the territory. Tim Hodgson Tim Hodgson is new to elected politics, but has some familiarity with government and with the prime minister himself. The MP for Markham-Thornhill worked with Carney during his tenure at the Bank of Canada, and will now serve as the minister of natural resources and energy. Hodgson also has private sector experience, most notably in his former role as the CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada. Joël Lightbound The representative for the Quebec riding of Louis-Hébert is another MP making the jump to cabinet after nearly a decade on the backbench. Lightbound was first elected in 2015 and has been a parliamentary secretary to a number of cabinet ministers. Carney has now given Lightbound his own portfolio as the minister of government transformation, public works and procurement. The veteran MP has not shied away from speaking out against the Liberal government in the past. Rebecca Chartrand Rebecca Chartrand, who identifies as Anishinaabe, Inninew, Dakota and Métis from Pine Creek First Nation, is one of three Indigenous members of Carney's cabinet. The newly elected MP jumps right into a cabinet role after unseating longtime NDP MP Niki Ashton in the northern Manitoba riding of Churchill-Keewatinook Aski. Chartrand was previously the president and CEO of Indigenous Strategy, a management consulting company. During her campaign, Chartrand promised to advance economic development opportunities in the North, ranging from the railway to the Port of Churchill and the abundance of critical minerals. She takes on the role of minister of northern and Arctic affairs and minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency. Rebecca Alty The new MP for the Northwest Territories is the only territorial member of cabinet, having been sworn in as the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations. Alty is one of the new MPs jumping right into a cabinet position. She previously served as mayor and city councillor in Yellowknife. Alty had promised to push for federal funding related to an Indigenous conservation deal in the territory — something she could now potentially have influence over in her cabinet role. Gregor Robertson The former Vancouver mayor will take on a cabinet position after notching his first federal electoral win. The new MP for Vancouver Fraserview-South Burnaby will be Carney's housing and infrastructure minister. He will also be responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada. Robertson was Vancouver's mayor from 2008 to 2018. He also served as a New Democrat B.C. legislative member from 2005 to 2008. Heath MacDonald Heath MacDonald will be the cabinet representative from P.E.I., taking on the role of agriculture minister. The agriculture file had previously been held by Lawrence MacAulay, another Islander and longtime minister who decided not to run this past election. MacDonald is not a new face in the Liberal caucus — he was first elected in 2021. Though he hasn't previously been a parliamentary secretary, he has previously been the chair of the House public safety committee. Jill McKnight McKnight is another rookie MP who Carney has immediately put in his cabinet. She will be taking on the role of veteran affairs minister and associate minister of national defence. A small business owner, McKnight won last month in the B.C. riding of Delta, which included parts of former minister and MP Carla Qualtrough's riding. Before entering electoral politics, McKnight served as the executive director of the Delta Chamber of Commerce. Lena Metlege Diab Like Dabrusin, Diab had endorsed Freeland in the Liberal leadership race. Despite that, Carney named the Nova Scotia MP the new minister or immigration, refugees and citizenship. Diab was first elected in Halifax West in 2021. Though she hasn't held a parliamentary secretary position, Diab has been the chair of the House justice committee. The child of Lebanese immigrants, Diab brings provincial cabinet experience to her new job. She had previously been an N.S. MLA and held a number of provincial cabinet positions — including immigration — during her tenure. Marjorie Michel The new minister of health is also a rookie MP. Marjorie Michel won her seat last month in the Montreal riding of Papineau — the same riding that former prime minister Justin Trudeau represented. Michel is a longtime Liberal organizer. She previously served as Trudeau's deputy chief of staff and worked as the party's director of campaign operations in Quebec during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. Michel had initially been tapped to be the Liberal deputy campaign director back in the fall when Trudeau was still party leader. Maninder Sidhu An MP since 2019, Sidhu gets his first cabinet role as minister of international trade — likely to be a key portfolio given the ongoing U.S. trade war. The MP for Brampton East has been a parliamentary secretary for a number of ministers — including his two predecessors, Dominic LeBlanc and Mary Ng. Sidhu was an early backer of Carney's leadership bid. Buckley Belanger A former Saskatchewan Liberal and NDP MLA, Belanger will be the secretary of state for rural development. Belanger, who is Métis, is one of three Indigenous members of Carney's cabinet. After winning his riding, the newly elected MP said he wanted to convene a series of summits bringing together leaders, artists, land stewards and language keepers to shape a shared vision for the North's future. Belanger won the Liberals' first seat in Saskatchewan since 2019, and will be the province's sole representative in caucus and at the cabinet table. Stephen Fuhr Fuhr was an MP from 2015 to 2019, before losing his B.C. seat to Conservative Tracy Gray. Fuhr was able to take the seat back from Gray in last month's election. For his second term as an MP, the representative for Kelowna will have a cabinet role — albeit a junior position — serving as the secretary of state for defence procurement. During his first stint as an MP, Fuhr was chair of the House defence committee. He is the first and only Liberal MP to be elected in B.C.'s interior in the last 50 years. Anna Gainey Gainey had been an adviser with the Liberal government before making the jump into electoral politics 2023. She won a byelection that year in the Montreal riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount to replace outgoing MP and former cabinet minister Marc Garneau. Gainey advised two ministers of national defence and veterans affairs, and is a former president of the Liberal Party. The Montreal MP will be Carney's secretary of state for children and youth. Wayne Long First elected in 2015, Long now gets his first cabinet role. He will be the secretary of state responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency and financial institutions. Long was one of the more outspoken MPs calling on Trudeau to resign. The New Brunswick MP had initially signalled he wouldn't run again but decided to stay on after Carney won the leadership. In the past, Long also broke ranks with his party over small business tax changes. Nathalie Provost Provost, a survivor of the 1989 Montreal massacre and longtime gun control advocate, is taking on the role of secretary of state for nature. Provost won her first election last month in the Quebec riding of Châteauguay-Les Jardins-de-Napierville. Carney would often tout Provost's candidacy during the campaign when emphasizing his party's commitment to firearm regulations. In an embarrassing moment early in the campaign, the Liberal leader mispronounced Provost's name. Randeep Sarai Sarai has been an MP since 2015, but this will be his first time at the cabinet table. Carney named the Surrey Centre MP as the secretary of state for international development. Since his first election, Sarai has been a parliamentary secretary for veterans affairs. He has also been the chair of the House justice committee. Sarai has found himself in hot water in the past. The MP invited Jaspal Atwal — who was convicted of attempting to assassinate an Indian cabinet minister in 1986 — to a pair of high-level receptions during Trudeau's 2018 trip to India. Sarai apologized and resigned as chair of his party's Pacific caucus. Adam van Koeverden The former Olympian turned politician is now the secretary of state for sport. Van Koeverden was first elected in 2019, unseating longtime Conservative MP and former cabinet minister Lisa Raitt. He has held a number of parliamentary secretary roles, including for former ministers of sport. But this is his first time at the cabinet table. Van Koeverden won a gold medal in kayaking at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Stephanie McLean Although she is a former Alberta NDP MLA, Mclean won a seat for the federal Liberals in B.C. A lawyer by trade, McLean won the riding of Esquimalt-Saanich-Sooke, which had been held by the NDP since 2011. McLean is now the secretary of state for seniors. John Zerucelli Zerucelli is a rookie MP taking on the role of secretary of state for labour. He was elected in the Toronto riding of Etobicoke North, a seat formerly held by longtime Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Kirsty Duncan.
National Post
13-05-2025
- Politics
- National Post
'Fire... meet gas': Alberta Premier Danielle Smith dismayed at Carney cabinet picks
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn't hide her dismay at Prime Minister Mark Carney's choice of Toronto-area MP Julie Dabrusin as his new environment minister on Tuesday. Article content Article content 'I am very concerned the prime minister has appointed what appears to be yet another anti-oil and gas environment minister,' said Smith in a statement on Carney's cabinet picks. Article content 'Not only is (Dabrusin) a self-proclaimed architect of the designation of plastics as toxic, but she is a staunch advocate against oil sands expansion (and) proponent of phasing out oil and gas(.)' Article content Smith also said she was put off by Dabrusin's close ties to longtime thorn in her side Steven Guilbeault, to whom Dabrusin served as a parliamentary secretary for four years. Article content The premier's chief of staff, Rob Anderson, was even more blunt in his reaction to Dabrusin's appointment. Article content 'Fire… meet gas,' wrote Anderson on social media. Article content Carney's promotion of Dabrusin to Guilbeault's old job keeps Ottawa and Alberta on a collision course over Liberal net-zero climate policies. Article content Smith has warned Carney repeatedly that he'll need to scrap several of these policies — including the federal cap on oil and gas emissions and federal clean electricity regulations — if he wants to avoid an unprecedented national unity crisis. Article content On Monday, Smith announced that she was indefinitely freezing Alberta's industrial carbon price at $95 per tonne, setting up a clash with the Carney Liberals over their escalating federal carbon price. Article content Article content Just one Alberta MP, Edmontonian Eleanor Olszewski, was named to Carney's 28-member cabinet. Article content Rookie Calgary Liberal MP Corey Hogan was snubbed of either a cabinet or secretarial post. Article content The reaction to Carney's new cabinet in Alberta wasn't all negative, as some in the province's business community said they were encouraged by the appointment of ex-banker Tim Hodgson as energy minister. Article content 'Tim (Hodgson) has real life experience with Alberta's energy sector… he's seen firsthand the challenging policy environment that the federal government has put in place for the past ten years,' said Business Council of Alberta President Adam Legge. Hodgson was previously an executive with Calgary-based oil sands producer MEG Energy. Article content Calgary-based energy analyst Heather Exner-Pirot agrees that Hodgson's appointment is good news for Alberta's energy sector. Article content 'I don't think there's anyone else in the entire Liberal caucus who could've given as much cause for optimism as Hodgson,' said Exner-Pirot. Article content
