Essential summer home improvement tips

 Last year we saw record rainfall in many parts of Canada over the warmer months. Before the first summer storm hits this year, take some time to protect your property against flooding. Protect doors and windows. Put weather protection sealant around basement windows and the base of ground-level doors. Install flood

As Flood Waters Rise So Does Support

 According to the Australian historian Hedley Bull, the maintenance of order in social life depends on life itself, trust and property. The reconstruction of all social order must think of these three aspects. All three goals may be said to be as elementary as they are universal because any other

Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind

 by Brian Fagan • Bloomsbury Press, 2011, 384 pp. This spring’s flooding of the Assiniboine River in Saskatchewan and Manitoba and the Richelieu River in Quebec has thrust surrounding communities into crisis. The inundation of farmlands has destroyed crops and livelihoods. Homes have been lost. Meanwhile drought along the Yangtze