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Supporters of the change have said the major tech companies, like Amazon and Microsoft, that are the biggest beneficiaries of the programme, have the money to swallow the new charge.

Yet over the last 15 days, circumstances have changed.

The registrar of voters constantly works to verify, update and confirm information on voter rolls, and Page said the agency regularly updates the rolls for deaths or other changes.

"Until we as a global society deal with human-cased climate change, we're going to have this problem," said Mike Flannigan, an emergency management and fire science expert at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia.

Sergio Berrueta, a digital content director who would have marked his one-year anniversary at the station this week, said he learned the news from a friend and former co-worker who texted him about the change.