MONTREAL — Canadians with ties to Grenada are doing what they can to provide relief to the island nation that was devastated by a powerful hurricane this week.

Hurricane Beryl — downgraded to a Category 2 storm today as it heads toward Mexico’s Caribbean coast — claimed at least nine lives, including three in Grenada, and destroyed 95 per cent of homes on a pair of islands in neighbouring St. Vincent and the Grenadines.