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Monday, September 6, 2021

Annual Evacuations Are Already Happening

    Approaching the halfway point in the data that we harvested from the CDD, patterns are emerging. The recurrence of certain types of events and specific communities also means that pieces of a large puzzle are starting to fall into place. In the first seventy-or-so events, the most prominent geography was the Red... More

Monday, August 23, 2021

Disaster Does Not Discriminate

In the summer of 2008, my Aunt drove me from Purcells Cove down Herring Cove Road towards my house, which is just outside Halifax’s city limits. This is the longer way around, but we prefer to drive along the coastline. This is my favourite drive in the world. On one side of the road,... More

Sunday, August 22, 2021

It Is Hard To Feel Hopeful During A Disaster

Something I have thought a lot about while working my way through the Canadian Disaster Database (CDD) over the past few weeks is just how invisible Indigenous peoples are in the data, even though so many of the disasters I am reading about have impacted Indigenous communities the hardest. For example, I just wrote about the... More

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