Half a million Toronto residents sweltering in apartments with no A/C in summer heat
There are a host of ways that cities like Toronto can mitigate the impacts of and adapt to extreme heat, said Feltmate.Severe heat adds pressure to strained Canadian health care
The City of Toronto said approximately 500,000 people live in apartments without air conditioning in the city. Extreme heat can have numerous impacts on health, including heat exhaustion, heat strokes and death, said Dr. Samantha Green, a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital and faculty lead in climate change and health at the department of family and community medicine at the University of Toronto.
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