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Canada has officially recorded a temperature below -10°C for the first time this season. We’ve notched this milestone right around the point in the year when you’d expect to see the country’s first minus double-digit reading. CANADA’S FALL FORECAST: Exceptional El Niño favours extended fallAlert, Nunavut, dropped to -14.0°C on Friday, Sept. 11. Located on northern Ellesmere Island, Alert is the world’s northernmost permanently inhabited place. The station there hasn’t gotten this cold so early in the year since 2017. Communities throughout Nunavut are usually the first to reach this temperature milestone each year. The first minus-teens last year occurred on Sept. 8 in Isachsen, while the first such reading in 2024 arrived in Eureka on Sept. 18. This won’t be the region’s last cold intrusion, either, as additional bouts of cold air spill down from the North Pole. When can we expect that level of chilly air to begin dipping southward? This year may feature an extended wait as an unusually mild autumn is expected throughout much of the country. Content continues belowDuring a typical year, however, here’s how this winter-like chill typically progresses.

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In August 2019, Omar Rajeh sat in his bedroom, listening to the sound of pounding percussion with his world in crisis. In the midst of political instability, Citerne Beirut, a theatre and cultural centre Rajeh had founded in his native Lebanon, was forced to close, dismantled by order of the local government, who planned to build an incinerator on the site. Heartfelt … Omar Rajeh in Dance Is Not for Us. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the GuardianRajeh tells us that as a teenager, coming of age at the end of the Lebanese civil war, dance had always seemed like the most revolutionary thing he could do. Now here he is, more than three decades later, still dancing – out of frustration, defiance, resistance and a desire to connect. As the percussive score gains momentum, Rajeh’s busy body builds up a sweat. In this danced stream of consciousness, Rajeh is not always an especially elegant mover, but he dances like it’s a necessary thing to do. Part of this year’s Dance Umbrella festival, Dance Is Not for Us is a solo that appears at times like an explosion of physical instinct, but it is mostly calm, considered musings on the nature of choreography, with all its workings exposed.