extreme heat

• Extreme heat, overdoses contributed to excess deaths in Canada amid COVID-19: report

  Statistics Canada found "indirect consequences" of the COVID-19 pandemic accounted for some of the excess deaths reported over the past two years.

  Canada

  May 13
  
• New climate report warns Kingston, Belleville at risk of extreme heat

  A new climate change report from Waterloo University warns Kingston and Belleville are vulnerable to extreme heat.

  Canada

  Apr 22
  
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• Extreme heat should be labelled a natural disaster, Canadian report urges

  The report lays out dozens of things individuals, businesses and governments can do to ease the threat posed by extreme heat.

  Environment

  Apr 20
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• Weather disasters becoming more common across the globe, UN report indicates

  However, the disasters are killing far fewer people, the report says. It comes during a disaster-filled summer globally, including extreme wildfires in Canada.

  Environment

  Sep 1, 2021
• Canada’s wildfires, extreme heat bring environmental issues to election campaign

  For environmental leaders, this summer's extreme weather in B.C., combined with drought across the Prairies, could shape voters' minds in the Sept. 20 federal election.

  Canada

  Aug 27, 2021
• Ottawa, eastern Ontario start week under heat warning

  Humidex values in Ottawa and the surrounding region could hit 40 on Monday and Tuesday as Environment Canada places the area under a heat warning.

  Weather

  Aug 9, 2021
• Extreme heat waves expected to happen every decade, U.N. climate report says

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report also found that once-in-a-decade heavy rain events are now 1.3 times more likely and 6.7 per cent wetter.

  Environment

  Aug 9, 2021
• B.C. health minister pledges ‘all hands on deck’ heat wave response

  It comes after the province faced criticism over its handling of the summer's first heat wave, in which at least 570 people died of heat related illness.

  Health

  Jul 30, 2021
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• 70% of sudden deaths during recent B.C. heat wave tied to extreme temperatures, coroner says

  'It's just hard to wrap your head around that many people dying in this province in one week due to extreme heat,' chief coroner Lisa Lapointe said.

  Health

  Jul 29, 2021
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• Regina residents head indoors to find relief from the heat

  As yet another heat warning is in effect in southern Saskatchewan, residents in Regina are heading indoors to find some relief from the heat.

  Environment

  Jul 15, 2021