Heat Wave Deaths

• Montreal public health says one heat-related death reported since Sunday

  Officials issued a notice for the city's ER doctors to contact the department within 24 hours of a death that could be linked to heat.

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  Aug 12, 2025
  
• Renters may face higher risk of death in extreme heat, StatCan study shows

  Deaths in Canada's 12 most populous cities go up during extreme heat waves and people aged 65 and older are at higher risk than those who are younger, Statistics Canada study says.

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  Jun 20, 2024
  
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• New policies could save lives in next heat dome, but so could community, say experts

  Chief Jim Ogloff of the Coquitlam Fire Department said he believed the new emergency response system will make the province better prepared to face the next heat dome.

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  Jun 26, 2022
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• 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.

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  May 13, 2022
• 32 Okanagan residents died from heat wave: BC Coroner’s Office

  Not all places of death were noted, however, the coroner's report did note 12 of these deaths were in Kelowna and another five were in Vernon. 

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  Nov 1, 2021
• Heat wave: More than 800 died in B.C. in a single week, four times more than normal

  The coroners service has yet to directly attributed any of the individual deaths to the heat, but has said it's believed to be a significant contributing factor.

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  Jul 16, 2021
• Hundreds of people have died from extreme heat in western Canada, U.S., officials say

  Nearly 500 deaths were reported in British Columbia alone, while dozens of additional deaths in Oregon and Washington state have been linked to dangerous overheating.

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  Jun 30, 2021
• ‘We are getting the calls as fast as we can’: Okanagan paramedics see a surge during heat wave

  "It is not as bad as it is in the Lower Mainland... but we are getting delays in responses because of the volume in the Okanagan corridor."

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  Jun 30, 2021
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• Heat wave: 13 calls for wellness checks but no deaths in past 48 hours, say Kelowna RCMP

  Despite the good news out of Kelowna amid the heat wave, Kamloops RCMP said there have been six sudden deaths since last Friday.

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  Jun 30, 2021
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• ‘We’ve never seen anything like it’: Vancouver police respond to dozens of heat-related deaths

  Police said officers have responded to more than 65 sudden deaths since the heat wave began on Friday and 20 sudden deaths as of 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday alone.

  Health

  Jun 29, 2021