Residents of a community in British Columbia's Interior desperately searched for loved ones and tried to process the loss of their homes on Thursday, July 1, 2021, after learning that most of the village of Lytton had been destroyed by raging wildfires.
The extreme heat in Western Canada is a brutal reminder that climate-driven fatalities are going to be an even bigger part of our lives going forward, writes columnist Max Fawcett. We need to be taking bounds, not steps, if we’re going to get ahead of this slow-motion disaster.
The temperature in a village in British Columbia's southern Interior reached a scorching 46.1 C on Sunday, June 27, 2021, afternoon, marking a new all-time high recorded in Canada.