When a blanket of oppressive heat smothered B.C. in late June of 2021, Q Lawrence and their roommate began sleeping in the coolest place they could find — the kitchen floor.
Temperatures in their Fraser Valley community of Chilliwack soared to record highs, reaching above 40 C for days in a row.
“I honestly felt quite trapped,” Lawrence recalled. “The house would just build in temperature throughout the day, and then at night there wouldn’t even be a subtle drop. It would just stay the same temperature, and then the next day it would start to build again.”
The 26-year-old gets by on less than $1,400 a month in disability assistance from
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