Good morning. This is the Wednesday, July 15 edition of First Up, the Star’s daily morning digest. Sign up to get it earlier each day, in your inbox.
You think this is hot? Well, it is. For sure. Hot enough that some restaurants shut down Tuesday. But Mark Colley looks back at the hottest week in Toronto history, a time in 1936 when the pavement melted, berries roasted on the vine and thousands of people slept outside on the Toronto lakefront. At least this week, we live in a world that has air conditioning and where the city hasn’t run out of water (as East York almost did back then). More on the current heat wave in just a moment.
