{"id":10,"date":"2015-08-11T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadianinstitute.com\/event-template\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-06-26T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T13:37:09","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.canadianinstitute.com\/disaster-response-emergency-management-symposium-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- #3 OPENING START -->\r\n<style>\r\n#intro-component { margin-top: 144px; margin-bottom: 168px; }\r\n#intro-component h2 { margin-bottom: 32px !important; }\r\n#intro-component .copy-wrap { max-width: 792px; }\r\n#intro-component .img-wrap img { border-radius: 12px; }\r\n#intro-component a { font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.7px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; text-decoration: underline; outline: none; color: #242424; }\r\n@media screen and (max-width: 1279px) {\r\n  #intro-component .copy-wrap { max-width: initial; margin-bottom: 29px; }\r\n  #intro-component .img-wrap img { width: 100%; }\r\n}\r\n<\/style>\r\n<div class=\"row\" id=\"intro-component\">\r\n<div class=\"container\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-xxxs-12 col-md-12 col-lg-7 col-xl-7\">\r\n      <div class=\"copy-wrap\">\r\n        <h3>As severe storms, flooding, prolonged outages, and&nbsp;extreme heat escalate across Eastern Canada, communities and organizations face growing pressure to deliver coordinated, climate-resilient emergency responses.<\/h3>\r\n        <p>DREMS East brings together municipal and regional EM directors, First Nation leaders, healthcare preparedness and critical infrastructure experts, insurers, and risk consultants to turn emergency management policy and funding rules into action-ready plans. Timed ahead of peak summer hazards, DREMS East focuses on Ontario\u2019s emergency management modernization, cross-sector coordination, Indigenous partnership models, and funding-ready recovery under the updated Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements (DFAA). 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