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Open this photo in gallery A woman enters the Vancouver cooling center during the scorching 2021 heat dome.JENNIFER GAUTHIERThe Globe and Mail The off-season burst of warm air expected this weekend in British Columbia will increase the risk of flooding and wildfires. But in Vancouver, high temperatures alone pose a sufficient threat to public health. The city is opening a series of cooling centers, spray parks and misting stations to help people escape the heat. The facilities follow a path in neighborhoods where extreme heat is likely to have deadly consequences. Two years ago, residents these neighborhoods bore the brunt of one Canada’s deadliest weather events, when a historic heat dome settled over the Pacific Northwest for nearly a we
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