Cindy Mac

@cindymacd.bsky.social

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Disabled writer working in the climate space. WIP: a book on the 2021 Western Canada heat dome. Climate change kills. Believe patients.

A view up New Westminster's famous Eighth St at the corner of Columbia (where the WW1 photo, "Daddy, Wait for me!" was taken. It's much steeper than it looks in this snap.

A photo taken from the SkyTrain Expo Line, of Science World peeking out from behind trees.

The same image again, but with the transit lines added. The Expo Line follows the heat dome death pattern very closely.

The previous map, now side by side with a Google maps satellite image of roughly the same area. Highway 1A runs through the area that correlates with more heat dome deaths.

A map of the heat related deaths during the 2021 heat dome by Forward Sortation Area. Data: BC Coroner's Service. Map by Andy Yan, SFU. Reportage by Penny Daflos, CTV.