15 h. ago ‘A spooky season’: Drought and heat reducing pumpkin yield in Canadian farms

Drought and extreme heat are cutting into the size and supply of pumpkins that are usually carved into jack-o’-lanterns for Halloween or frozen and canned for food.

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2 w. ago Canadian author Linden MacIntyre explores dark and violent period in history

It was a clearly expressed mandate — “the stamping out of terrorism by secret murder.” That’s how one highly-placed observer saw the situation more than a century ago when the Irish War of Independence was raging and the British government was determined to suppress it by whatever means possible. So if it was necessary to […]

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2 w. ago Extreme heat, wildfires taking a toll on ticks in Atlantic Canada — for now

If temperatures become too hot, much-maligned ticks are at risk of drying out. The parasites survive by retreating to moist areas like leaf litter and in the soil.

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3 w. ago Everything I ordered from Chewy to keep my Toronto rescue dog happy and healthy

Toronto has seen a summer filled with extreme heat. While we’ve all been doing our best to keep cool, our pets get just as hot as we do — plus, they have a harder time regulating their internal temperatures.As an over-protective dog parent, my dog’s comfort is always something I look out for. My boyfriend and I adopted our dog, Omar, last November from Barbados, and he's already had a hard time acclimating to our Canadian winters and scorching summers.We thought he'd be right at home in the heat — but this "extreme heat" is a different story. Even though Omar is a short-haired guy, dogs sweat through their paws and by panting, which doesn’t do a whole lot to immediately cool them down. There's a lot to keep track of, and during hot days or wild weather, it's hard for people to run to the nearest pet store. Luckily, since I adopted my little guy, I've been using Chewy, an incredible one-stop shop that always has ev...

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3 w. ago ‘We are in a heat crisis’: Province should track deaths, ensure school AC, group says

Extreme heat is endangering students, workers, renters and some of Ontario’s most vulnerable residents, a network of civil society groups said Monday as they urged the province to better prepare for sweltering temperatures.  The Heat Collaborative issued calls to action Monday including a demand for the province to create an extreme heat awareness program.  Among […]

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3 w. ago Could extreme heat stress the power grid enough to throw Canadians into the dark?

Researchers say they are seeing rising summer demand for energy, straining infrastructure and, in some cases, leading to blackouts

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3 w. ago Group calls for extreme heat protections as Ontario swelters

A network of Ontario civil society groups is calling on the province to develop an extreme-heat awareness program to better address the dangers of sweltering temperatures.

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