Global News published this video item, entitled “Western Canada heat wave scorches British Columbia’s crops, shatters records” – below is their description.
British Columbians are scrambling to find relief, as a dangerous heat wave continues to slam the province. The heat dome across the region emerged on Friday, trapping air that is hot and oppressive – and forecasts are calling for temperatures that can reach as high as 45 degrees Celsius.
As Emad Agahi explains, all of this is also causing grief for the province’s agriculture, as the dangerously high temperatures wilt away farmer’s livelihoods.
Plus, Yvonne Schalle looks at how all-time heat records as far as Alberta are being broken.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.