Fearing a health hazard, the Ontario premier, Ernie Eves, called provincial legislators back to a rare summer session to pass emergency back-to-work legislation.
"In Haiti, safe spaces are a problem because schools are old and we need to rebuild the schools, and the government has no resources to do that," said education specialist Wildenes Etienne, who current works for Catholic Relief Services and manages a UNICEF-supported emergency back-to-school programme in Haiti.
Some providers had to turn to emergency back up generators that burn far more expensive petroleum.
The special police powers granted under the state of emergency hark back to the Algerian war in the 1950s.
On Tuesday helicopters crisscrossed the skies above Gorkha, close to the epicentre of Saturday's magnitude 7.8 quake, ferrying the injured to clinics and taking emergency supplies back to remote villages.
Or could he? Dodge puzzled again over the mysterious message from Ames telling him to be ready for an emergency trip back to Laramie.
In its response to the report, the government said Amnesty had "failed to acknowledge the pressing needs at the time to bring the emergency situation back to normalcy".
Media captionDr Robert Massey, Royal Astronomical Society: "It is a serious issue" In June, some debris narrowly missed the space station, forcing its six crew to go to their escape capsules and prepare for an emergency evacuation back to Earth.
"He was resuscitated in the emergency room back to a stable heart rhythm and blood pressure," he wrote.
Two days before, I had taken an emergency flight back to Texas because the doctor said my father wasn't going to make it.
At the Forum, several speakers demanded that Europe stand ready to divert gas from its emergency stores back to Ukraine, should Kiev's supply be cut off.
