Ottawa declares a climate emergency

Canada’s capital city, which has been fighting rising river waters in its outlying communities, declared a climate emergency on Wednesday.
Ottawa’s city council voted overwhelmingly to make the declaration as a way to show how serious the municipality is about protecting people from the impacts of climate change.
It was a big win — and a somewhat surprising one — for Coun. Shawn Menard, who first brought the proposal for a climate-emergency declaration to the environment