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No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. The extreme heat landed Wiebe in the hospital, dehydrated and separated from her nursing baby from dawn until dusk. So began a year of mothering through heat, fires and floods.

This podcast explores how the 2021 heat dome affected members of priority populations in the Capital Regional District (CRD). Through storytelling, members of priority populations’ share their lived experiences of the 2021 heat dome to amplify their stories, and to communicate them to policy- and decision-makers to engage in a process of policy listening. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ From June 25 to July 1, 2021, British Columbia (BC) experienced Canada’s most deadly heat event with 619 deaths (BC Coroners’ Service, 2022). Most communication efforts by ...