Every day outreach worker Greg Cook tries to connect dozens of homeless Torontonians with one of the city’s busy shelters, mostly, he says, without success. Those efforts become even more difficult during weeks of freezing cold temperatures, when demand is highest but access to resources remains low. Sometimes, Cook says the people he is trying … Read more
The Alberta Electric System Operator issued a new grid alert for the province Monday morning amid an ongoing stretch of extremely cold temperatures, but dropped it shortly after. “The AESO has declared a grid alert due to extreme cold, and several power facility outages,” the non-profit organization tweeted at 8:12 a.m. At 9:21 a.m., the … Read more
Meteorologists are forecasting even colder temperatures for the rest of the week. A large number of trucks are stuck on the E22 at Linderöd in southern Sweden, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP) COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Extremely cold temperatures compounded by gale-force winds and snow wreaked havoc across the Nordic region Thursday, … Read more