By Jacqueline St.Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor Raises questions about whether communities are ready MANITOULIN—Canada has traditionally advised its communities, infrastructure and institutions around the promise of a relatively stable climate. Now, the climate is changing faster than the machinery of government was built to respond to it. A sweeping new federal scientific assessment released September 3 finds that some of the changes subliminally sensed by many are already underway in Canada’s climate and are effectively irreversible within the boundaries of human timescales. The 2026 National Adaptation Strategy Report alongside the federal 2026 National Adaptation Strategy Progress Report released by the federal government on September 3, — ts second revision since 2019—elicited the following comment from Ryan Ness, Director of Adaptation at the Canadian Climate Institute “Ottawa’s…






