Experts say a maximum temperature bylaw is the single most important initiative the city could take to protect lives as extreme heat intensifies in the climate crisis.
In the dead of winter, Mayor Olivia Chow made a commitment to protect renters from a threat that would inevitably return with summer: the kind of crushing heat wave Toronto experienced this week.
“Too many of our city’s apartment buildings weren’t designed to stay livable during heat waves. Residents are suffering, and we need to act,” Chow wrote last December.
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Editorial | Deadly threat of heatstroke must prompt better heat safety education
