Expert Issues Twister Warning

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Gordon McBean encouraged provincial municipalities ministers at a meeting in Halifax on Friday to improve building codes to address several climate change concerns across the country.

"Unfortunately, all of our building codes in Canada are designed on the climate of the last 30 years, and even the climate of the last 10 years is different," he said.

"There's also the tendency for the whole house to lift up off its foundation."

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Expert Issues Twister Warning

Says building codes should be upgraded

By Chris Purdy

SASKATOON -- One of Canada's top climate experts wants new homes to be buil...

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