Ontario heat wave prompts concerns about sweltering schools and suffering students, educators | Unpublished
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Author: Kristy Kirkup
Publication Date: June 23, 2025 - 19:42

Ontario heat wave prompts concerns about sweltering schools and suffering students, educators

June 23, 2025
Five-year-old Emmett Mullins, pale and warm to the touch when he returned from school on Thursday, started vomiting at home.Emmett’s symptoms were not the result of the flu, but from being overheated: Earlier that afternoon, he had fallen asleep in his hot classroom watching a movie. His mother, Alexandra Mullins, was advised by Telehealth Ontario to take him to an Ottawa emergency room.


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