The municipal property manager was perplexed. A city employee complained about a mouldy odour in her office that intensified on rainy or damp days. The manager inspected the office and found nothing alarming: no obvious mould growth or damp spots and, on the sunny day he visited, no smell either.… Read more »
Floods are the most common natural disaster in Canada, ringing up billions in losses over the last 10 years. The Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto recently found that flooding is more costly to Canadians than fire and theft, and the threat is rising rapidly as the climate changes.… Read more »
Before the COVID-19 virus limitations began, we were hard at work volunteering our people, expertise and funding for worthy causes large and small. We look forward to volunteering anew as soon as possible for causes like these: Helping Kids with Cancer: Paul Davis has supported the Child Cancer Fund for… Read more »
Small businesses do many things right – they’re nimble, creative, collaborative and offer great team atmospheres – but one thing is a challenge for every compact company: surviving a disaster. As many as 40 percent never open their doors after experiencing a flood, fire or severe storm. The key to… Read more »
Sometimes, the disaster bearing down on us is invisible. It arrives suddenly and is among us before we even realize the danger. That has been the case with the worldwide rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus. As people, communities and countries grapple with its substantial impacts and struggle to slow… Read more »