“The whole 13 hours we didn't have water,” Breshna Kayoumi, a longtime resident of 375 Bleecker Street, northeast of Toronto’s downtown core, said. “It’s like the people in community housing don’t count as human.”
Outside, it was sweltering. Temperatures reached the mid-thirties, and felt even hotter with the humidity in Toronto, and across Ontario, prompting a five day heat warning from Environment Canada. “It’s kind of been ridiculous,” Breshna’s daughter Zouahl Kayoumi said as she sat with her mother outside a nearby church in the shade, where the drilling on their doorstep was softened to a hum.
On these hot days, the whole family gathers in the living room. Zouahl cracks the window open to its maximum span of 10 cm, pulls down the blinds and turns off the lights as the sunshine soaks into their west-facing apartment in the afternoon. But according to Zouahl, most residents in the building don’t have access to cooling resources, especially in their apartments. “Or if they do have, they are broken and they can’t afford to fix them,” she said.
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