Climate change is already affecting Canadians. More and more are having to adapt to threats to their health and safety caused by higher temperatures, poorer air quality, and more extreme and unpredictable weather events.
To help address these challenges, it’s useful to have a basic understanding of climate change, its causes, and what actions would be most effective in limiting its impacts on Canadians. The good news is that the vast majority of Canadians support strong climate actions, and are willing and ready to make substantial changes in their own lives to help limit further climate change.
This post was made in collaboration with the Government of Canada, to help better understand how Canadians’ think, feel and act on climate change.
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- Alberta has endured some of the worst air quality in the world this week due to wildfire smoke | CBC News | May 2023
- Land burned in Sask. wildfires this year amounts to 5 times the size of P.A. National Park | CBC News | October 2023
- Massive June 2020 hailstorm left lasting scars for Calgarians, study finds | Calgary Herald | August 2022
- More than a billion seashore animals may have cooked to death in B.C. heat wave, says UBC researcher | CBC News | July 2021
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- ‘Historic’ wildfires in Quebec, says SOPFEU, after 4.5 million hectares of forest burned in 2023 | CTV News | November 2023
- Most of Ontario remains under fire bans with 3 times as many wildfires reported in 2023 | CTV News | June 2023
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- N.W.T. communities shatter temperature records as heat warnings continue | Toronto Star | July 2023
- ‘Biblical proportions’: 3 months’ worth of rainfall floods Nova Scotia, forcing evacuations as crews search for missing people | CNN | July 2023
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- Alberta’s ‘monster’ hailstorm demolished every crop in its path, farmer says | CBC News | June 2020
- Sask. farmers stressed about poor crop yields, loss of income after weeks of dry conditions | CBC News | July 2021
- Some residents already returning after raging wildfire forces 7,000 people to flee Pimicikamak Cree Nation | CBC News | May 2023
- Northern Saskatchewan residents continue to flee homes due to wildfires | CBC News | May 2023
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- PARCA Study Wave 7 | Impact Canada | November 2024
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