Ontario urged to adopt a temperature maximum in extreme heat era

Jacqueline Wilson has spent the summer fielding calls from renters who can't bear the heat anymore. As records have been broken across Ontario, her legal aid clinic, the Canadian Environmental Law Association, has seen tenants increasingly grappling with the additional stress of extreme heat with no regulations to fall back on.

She said Ontario isn’t doing enough to protect renters and other people who are vulnerable to extreme heat, and that there are “wide legislative gaps” that are only growing as summers get increasingly hotter due to climate change. On Monday, the organization was part of a network of groups called The Heat Collaborative, which put out a call for the Ontario government to address its shortcomings in protecting people from extreme heat.

The group wants a maxim