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ANALYSIS | How many people die from heat-related illnesses? The truth is, we don't actually know

Summary by CBC News
If someone dies of a heart attack in a sweltering apartment, should it be recorded as a heart attack or a heat-related illness? There is no national way to categorize heat-related deaths. If you can’t get accurate numbers as to how many people are dying, how can you put mitigation measures in place?

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London – Current forecasts by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the National Ocean and Atmospheric Authority (NOAA) show that a historically strong "Super El Niño" is developing. This phenomenon is causing the global weather system to become massively confused and divides the world into two extreme weather zones, which sinks one region in the rain and the other extremely [...]

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CBC News broke the news in Ottawa, Canada on Wednesday, July 15, 2026.
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