101022 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://montrealgazette.com/business/wildfires-may-trigger-insurance-premium-hikes-desjardins-ceoArticle content. “Catastrophes these days are a lot costlier for insurers,” Cormier said Tuesday in an interview in Montreal. “There are new risks, houses that burned down in northern Quebec or the Maritimes. What I see coming in the short term are increases in insurance premiums to mutualize these risks.2023-06-21T23:53+0200montrealgazette-6ee4bd81312fb5999ad84ff3198f7e5720230621235300https://www.saltwire.com/prince-edward-island/news/a-shockingly-low-number-halifax-firefighters-only-handed-out-nine-fines-for-illegal-burning-since-2020-100866424/Halifax firefighters have only handed out nine tickets for illegal burning since they started tracking them in 2020. Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency coughed up that number this week when asked how many tickets it had issued for illegal burns over the past five years.2023-06-21T21:24+0200saltwire-8835230939d1074fdf01a117d414fee520230621212400https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/news/a-shockingly-low-number-halifax-firefighters-only-handed-out-nine-fines-for-illegal-burning-since-2020-100866424/Halifax firefighters have only handed out nine tickets for illegal burning since they started tracking them in 2020. Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency coughed up that number this week when asked how many tickets it had issued for illegal burns over the past five years.2023-06-21T20:09+0200thechronicleherald-8835230939d1074fdf01a117d414fee520230621200900https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/summer-set-to-be-sweltering-for-most-of-the-country-environment-canada-1.6450162It’s time to break out the sunscreen and air conditioning; this summer is expected to be a scorcher, according to Environment Canada. Environment and Climate Change Canada said in a press release that there will most likely be “higher-than-normal temperatures (for) most of the country until at least the end of August.2023-06-21T19:50+0200barrie-b390e1005707fa403533bd446f532d0020230621195000