Sweltering heat wave rolls through Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic provinces

Volunteers with Project Food Chain drop off water at the St. Felix 24-hr respite site, while a heat wave blankets parts of Ontario, in Toronto on June 19.It felt like 45 C in parts of Canada on Wednesday as a punishing heat wave continued to roll across Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.

Quebec’s Health Department is recommending people spend at least two hours a day in an air-conditioned space, take at least one cool shower or bath a day, and limit physical activity. Such a severe heat wave is rare this early in June, the agency said in a briefing for reporters on Wednesday. The heat wave has already broken some temperature records, and could break more. In Montreal, for example, the highest recorded June temperature is 35 C, a record set in 1964. On Wednesday, the city was expected to reach 34 C.

Hydro-Québec spokesperson Jonathan Laporte said the network maintenance in Pointe-Claire, Que., could not be postponed without risking longer-term outages. That left 1,600 clients without power from about 7 a.m. to just after 1 p.m. Wednesday.

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