As British Columbia grapples with a heat wave that broke temperature records this week, a disability rights advocate says there has been no meaningful progress to protect the most vulnerable since a week-long heat dome left 619 people dead in 2021.
“In terms of what’s happening for people, the same people are still largely without cooling,” said Gabrielle Peters, a disabled writer and policy advocate who was originally part of a panel convened by the B.C. Coroners Service last year before she left when her own recommendations were rejected.
In its June 2022 report to B.C.’s chief coroner, the panel recommended steps to
