Students swelter as heat wave highlights lack of classroom air conditioning

Ottawa’s sizzling summer is sizzling into fall, leaving thousands of elementary and high school students sweating at their desks.
Wednesday’s hot muggy weather turned many classrooms into saunas, highlighting the lack of air conditioning in many Ottawa schools.
Sixty per cent of Ottawa’s public schools have either no or limited air-conditioning. All of the city’s Catholic schools have at least some air conditioning, and about a quarter of its schools are fully air-co