extreme weather – Benefits Canada.com https://www.benefitscanada.com Canada's most influential pension and benefits publication for decision-makers Thu, 21 Nov 2024 22:24:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.8 Editorial: Turning challenge into opportunity https://www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/benefits-canada-archive/editorial-turning-challenge-into-opportunity/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:00:09 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=153996 As I write this column, I’m reflecting on the spectrum of weather I’ve witnessed this past winter. From my office window in southwestern Ontario, I looked out onto snowy rooftops for maybe a week over the last several months. That’s contrasted with a recent trip to Nova Scotia, where a series of winter storms brought […]

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]]> How climate change is impacting benefits, employee health https://www.benefitscanada.com/archives_/benefits-canada-archive/how-climate-change-is-impacting-benefits-employee-health/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:54:02 +0000 https://www.benefitscanada.com/?p=154121 During Canada’s unprecedented 2023 wildfire season, 6,500 individual fires burned more than 18.4 million hectares of land — and wildland firefighters bore the brunt of it all. “The working conditions are extremely dangerous and they’re getting more dangerous as fires become larger and more intense, and, in many cases, are going through communities,” says Bert […]

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]]> CSA Report: Issuers Don’t Understand Risks of Extreme Weather https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/csa-report-issuers-dont-understand-risks-of-extreme-weather/ https://www.benefitscanada.com/canadian-investment-review/cir-news/csa-report-issuers-dont-understand-risks-of-extreme-weather/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 05:12:27 +0000 https://cumulus.benefitscanada.com/uncategorized/csa-report-issuers-dont-understand-risks-of-extreme-weather/ How knowledge gaps around climate change can leave investors in the dark.

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