a psychotic disorder were most vulnerable to heat.2 For example, eight of the 53 people who died in the City of Montreal during the 2018 extreme heat event lived in a senior’s home.3 An evaluation of heat-related deaths in Quebec further found that the majority of the people who died did not have access to air conditioning and lived in an urban heat island, such as Montreal.4 Similarly, after th. [...] The strategy goes on to identify extreme heat as the deadliest weather- related event in the country.6 With an objective of protecting people from urgent climate-related health risks, the Strategy sets a target of 2040 to eliminate all heat-related deaths.7 Extreme heat is a serious public health crisis in Toronto The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (“ACORN”) released a Beat. [...] With such high indoor temperatures, it is impossible for these families to simply ‘keep cool.’ A 2007 study published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health looked at hot weather patterns in Toronto spanning the last five decades with the purpose of assessing the associated burden of mortality. [...] municipality may pass by-laws respecting the economic, social and environmental well-being of the municipality, the health, safety and well-being of persons, and the protection of persons and property; AND WHEREAS section 366(1) of the City of Toronto Act, 2006 authorizes the municipality to pass by-laws providing that a person who contravenes a by-law of the municipality passed under that Act is. [...] “tenant” includes a person who pays rent in return for the right to occupy a rental unit and includes the tenant’s heirs, assigns, and personal representatives, but “tenant” does not include a person who has the right to occupy a rental unit by virtue of being, (a) a co-owner of the residential complex in which the rental unit is located, or (b) a shareholder of a corporation that owns the residen.
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