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Home > News > Notices of Regional Interest, Heroism, Disaster > Avalanche; Ice Storm, Blizzard

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Atlantic Canada triple storm a rarity *
The three snow storms that hit Atlantic Canada with a wallop over the past eight days are a weather rarity, a senior climatologist at Environment Canada says. [More]

Avalanche Deaths: There's more to uncover *
The avalanche deaths of our son and his classmates will be in vain unless we learn the whole story, say parents PETER and JUDITH ARATO. [More]

B.C. fires top Canadian list of weather-related disasters *
From salmon suffocating in warm British Columbia streams to a Newfoundland town entombed in ice, this year's bizarre weather leaves little doubt that climate change has the country in its grip, Environment Canada says. [More]

Brutal blizzard continues in Nova Scotia and PEI *
Head down and encrusted in snow, the bundled figure didn't bother looking up as he trudged into the deserted gut of a normally busy intersection. [More]

Curfew continued for a second night in a row in Halifax *
Nova Scotia's largest city, still reeling from a fierce blizzard that dumped a record amount of snow over much of the province, will be subjected to a curfew for a second consecutive night, Halifax officials announced Saturday. [More]

Halifax invokes curfew for storm cleanup *
The City of Halifax imposed a curfew for the first time in memory as it struggled to keep motorists and pedestrians off streets clogged by a record-breaking snowfall. [More]

Halifax repairs the ravages of blizzard *
Nova Scotia is slowly but surely getting back to normal as it digs out from a record-breaking blizzard. [More]

Ice climbers found dead after avalanche *
Three ice climbers have been killed after being caught in an avalanche Thursday in Banff National Park. [More]

Parents decry 'unjust' report on last year's avalanche *
Donna Broshko burst into tears on the second page of the much-anticipated B.C. coroner's report into her son Scott's death. [More]

Storm puts Nova Scotia, PEI in state of emergency *
Heavy snow, high winds cause zero visibility across the province. [More]

U.S. Northeast digs out -- Travel warnings in effect *
Boston's airport partially reopened Monday, but schools and courthouses were closed in many areas of the northeastern United States where people struggled to recover from the weekend's blizzard. [More]

Winter storm pounds Vancouver region (and beyond) *
Winds gusting to almost 100 kilometres an hour hit Vancouver mid-afternoon Tuesday and a 6.0 earthquake struck in the northern part of the province. [More]

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Record storms continue to batter our region *
Even more bad weather is expected throughout the Lower Mainland and Northwest Washington State. [More]