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13 August 2025Insurance

Canada’s climate reckoning: are insurers ready?

Canada experienced its costliest year on record for insured catastrophe losses in 2024, with over C$8.9 billion ($6.5 billion) in damages, driven almost entirely by so-called secondary perils such as floods, hailstorms, wildfires and post-tropical storms.

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