Global News published this video item, entitled “Tropical Storm Elsa on the move towards Atlantic Canada” – below is their description.
Tropical Storm Elsa continues to move up the east coast of the United States and is now heading towards Atlantic Canada, where it’s expected to hit the region Friday into Saturday.
Even though it lost some energy over land, the storm still brought heavy rains and winds to the southeast U.S. on Thursday and at least one person’s death is being blamed on the storm after a tree fell on a vehicle in Jacksonville, Fla. At least 11 people were also injured in Georgia when a suspected tornado touched down at a submarine base.
Ross Lord reports on what to expect with the storm as it continues to track towards Canada.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
The United States is a country also known as the United States of America, USA, US or just America. There are fifty states in the union, which is a federal republic ruled by a representative democracy. Nearly ten million square kilometres are inhabited by over 300 million people. The majority of Americans speak English.