She might not have had air conditioning, but she didn’t like the dry air and didn’t think she needed it. But she says: ‘I'm good, I have this fan.’”Diane Brouillet was one of 66 people who died from heat in Montreal in the first week of July 2018. Diane lived in a second-floor walk-up in Lasalle, a post-war neighbourhood at the southern end of Montreal. On the humidex, Montreal peaked at 44 — just below the threshold for conditions Environment Canada calls “dangerous” to human health. In Lasalle, where you can walk blocks before finding the shade of a tree, the heat was even more stifling.

Source: thestar May 23, 2019 13:41 UTC