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We continue to make improvements to our website and are happy to announce that members can now build out profiles for their student, professional and organizational memberships. We hope this will aid in networking with your peers and colleauges.

We have also included an events calendar that is open to organizational members to populate with their events.

We have update our membership benefits as well! We encourage you to take a look around and let us know what you think!

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Introducing our new Discord Server!

Students, Emerging Professionals, seasoned professionals, folks interested in Disaster & Emergency Management, we are excited to share that we have Discord Server! We wanted a dedicated space to facilitate discussion,

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HazNet Submission Deadline

It's been seven years since the #SendaiFramework was established. While the past few years threw us a curve ball, some progress has been made in the four priorities, while others have suffered.

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Can You Lend a Hand?

Our mission is to bring together the disaster risk management community to increase resiliency through the transfer of knowledge, the building of relationships, and the exchange of best practices. In

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The lastest issue is call HOPE. COVID-19 pandemic. Wildfires. Extreme heat. Tornadoes. Floods. Atmospheric rivers. War. Derecho. Monkeypox. What’s next? Cascading, overlapping, and marathon emergencies in Canada and abroad, seemingly

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Donation to the Larry Pearce Education Award Fund

The Larry Pearce Education Award began in 2015 to provide funding for deserving post-secondary students undertaking studies in any discipline related to Canadian disaster risk and/or emergency management. This award was named after Mr. Pearce to pay tribute to his tireless efforts in advancing education and innovation in Disaster and Emergency Management studies.

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From the Editor

The 4th Wave: This issue shows that an ability to find a silver lining in any dark cloud – an opportunity for improvements in crises and disasters – is a distinct feature of emergency management. Despite the hardships of COVID-19, it is clear that many important transformations are taking place. Voices, movements, and causes that previously struggled to be heard are now gaining traction, thanks to the pandemic. Now is the time to capitalize on the silver linings and to prepare for the next disaster. Are we prepared to lead?

Building social connections with the We’re Ready! Community disaster preparedness workshop

Learn about We’re Ready! workshops that help communities to design and implement their own disaster preparedness program through interactive and engaging community-building activities.

Cultural safety in emergency support services

Emergency Support Services (ESS) is a program guided by Emergency Management BC (EMBC) and delivered by First Nations or local governments to support evacuees during emergency events.

Learn about cultural safety in Emergency Social Services and how to create safe spaces, free from discrimination, where Indigenous people, families and communities can continue practicing their culture even when displaced.

Perspective: COVID-19 vaccine distribution challenges in Canada and the United States

Learn about some of the early challenges and successes of the vaccine roll-out across Canada and the United States based on interviews with public health experts in North America.

GBA+: An analysis of the interplay of climate change, COVID-19, and housing

The pandemic highlighted the importance of applying an intersectional lens to our field of practice by acknowledging that disaster outcomes vary based on race, gender, class, education, among other identity factors. Learn about cultural safety in Emergency Social Services and how to create safe spaces, free from discrimination, where Indigenous people, families and communities can continue practicing their culture even when displaced.

A new dawn for public health? One specialist’s thoughts and hopes

Public health reimagined: As COVID-19 centered in many lives for the past 16 months, ‘public health’ became a household term. To understand the significance of public health transformation opportunities, read an interview with Dr. Michael Schwandt, a Medical Health Officer with Vancouver Coastal Health.

Beautiful sunsets – a silver lining of wildfires. Artwork by Sheri Lysons, Fire Chief, Adams Lake Indian Band

“There are over 300 active fires within our region. Far more within our territory. Everywhere around us are little fires. Last night we were out until 1am looking for one in Turtle Valley. All we can smell is sage and sweet grass burning. The smoke cleared yesterday for a bit, but it is back today. It gives us the most incredible sunsets. It feels like we are just waiting for a storm to hit and don’t know when it is going land but know it is going to bring destruction with it.”

There are many other great articles in this issue, please visit http://haznet.ca/

What inspires you? What gives you hope? Included in the next issue we will also feature many DEMs that will showcase their “sideline special talents”. Much like the art displayed above, we know that many of our colleagues benefit from these endeavours; it assists in mental health, a well rounded and balanced life and more. There will be more details on this coming soon, but wanted to get you thinking about it! If you have anything you’d like to contribute to the next issue, please visit http://haznet.ca/how-to-contribute-3/

We hope you will join us in telling Canada’s evolving story of risk and resilience.

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“Such harmless impacts become spontaneous real-world exercises and give us confidence that NASA ’s planetary defence systems are capable of informing the response to the potential for a serious impact by a larger object.”

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All eyes on Ontario’s bright fireball | SkyNews

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Astronomers and NASA had their eye on 2022 WJ1, a small asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

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Four Solutions to the Failed Climate Conference in Egypt

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The world leaders who gathered for the past two weeks knew they had to reduce burning fossil fuels by half by 2030 to effectively fight climate change, just like the landscaper who placed the formerly green tree at the entrance knew there should be a drip-irrigation pipe to water the tree. Yet

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CRHNet Awards deadline has been extended to December 31, 2022 and will be awared at our AGM in January. Know a deserving D&EM pro that deserves recognition for their contributions? Please visit crhnet.ca/awards/ ... See MoreSee Less

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How will this impact emergency communications? Some stations share, other networks no...

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CBS News and Top Affiliates Pause Twitter Activity 'Out of an Abundance of Caution'

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“In light of the uncertainty around Twitter,” the network and many big markets (including CBS New York, Chicago and Los Angeles) stop tweeting as they “monitor the platform”

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