TORONTO, January 26, 2011 —Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers responsible for emergency management met today in Toronto to discuss emergency management priorities. The meeting was co-chaired by the Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety Canada and the Honourable Jim Bradley, Ontario Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. “I am pleased to announce we have made significant [...]

Attached please find the design of a postcard promoting the CAFC’s Give Firefighters Credit campaign for tax relief for volunteer firefighters. The postcard design is attached in Microsoft Publisher and Adobe PDF format. The CAFC is encouraging members and supportive Fire Departments to have these postcards printed to distribute over the holiday and in the [...]

Public Safety Will Run Out of Data Spectrum in the Near Future Ottawa, ON–CATAAlliance, Canada’s largest high tech association today launched an advocacy campaign that recommends first steps to help put Canada in the lead for the development of a unified, state-of-the art mission critical voice and broadband multimedia and services network for our Public [...]

Canadians say they are willing to give volunteer firefighters a tax break even it costs the federal government millions of dollars.

OTTAWA, October 21, 2010 — The Honourable Vic Toews, Minister of Public Safety today announced a federal contribution of $125,000 for a new initiative to benefit Canada’s emergency managers called Partnerships Towards Safer Communities. The funding was awarded to the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs (CAFC) who will provide emergency managers across Canada with a [...]

OTTAWA, October 21, 2010 – “Legislation to enhance consumer product safety for all Canadians could have been in place two years ago,” said Saint John Fire Chief Rob Simonds, President of the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs (CAFC). He was appearing before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on Health which is considering Bill C-36, [...]

Fire Chief Gord Schreiner of the Comox, British Columbia Fire Department has been named Canada’s Full-time Fire Chief of the Year. Fire Chief Miles Boulter, Chief Instructor of the Prince Edward Island Firefighters School, is the Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year.

Ottawa Sun JON WILLING, City Hall Bureau Fire Chief John deHooge has been selected as the first international candidate to participate in a prestigious national security program in the U.S. The Centre for Homeland Defence and Security’s executive leaders program will begin this fall at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. One of the [...]

Ottawa, Ontario — Nine Canadian firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty will be honoured at the Canadian Firefighters Annual Memorial Ceremony this fall. The list includes pilot Robert Woodhead, from Stoney Creek, Ontario, who drowned in the Fraser River in 2009 after his helicopter crashed while fighting forest fires in British [...]