Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...
When heat waves strike, Environment Canada can link it to climate change — fast After last week’s heat wave brought stifling conditions, climate scientists are trying to figure out just how much climate change was to blame. Within a few days, researchers at Environment and Climate Change Canada are expected to have the answers. The results will mark the public debut of Canada’s new rapid extreme weather event attribution pilot program.
Environment Canada says scientists will be able to say, within about a week of the end of a major heat wave, whether and to what extent climate change made it more likely or intense. Here’s what else we’re watching..
. Different schools of thought on why Canada drapes itself with red and white Canada’s unofficial national colours will be on full display on Monday as Canadians don patriotic T-shirts, wave hand-held flags and hang bunting to celebrate their country. But while the red-and-white flag, for the most part, unites Canadians, the colours’ meaning is open to interpretation.
Xavier Gelinas, a curator at the Canadian Museum of History, says most people believe that red and white were designated as the official colours of Canada by King George the Fifth in 1921. For about a century, one school of thought has said red represents Britishness, and energy, life, blood, vigour and splendour of Canadian autumns while white represents the Canadia.
