Air Quality in Toronto and Montreal Suffers From Canada’s Wildfire Smoke

As dozens of wildfires continued to burn across Canada on Friday, the country sat under a thick blanket of wildfire smoke, with some of that acrid air drifting into the United States.

Smoke gets easily carried by winds. This week, it has drifted as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as Florida. “There are some people who think this smoke could reach Europe,” said Stéphane Bilodeau, an adjunct professor specializing in air quality at McGill University in Quebec.

Winnipeg, the provincial capital of Manitoba, and Fort Smith, a small town in the Northwest Territories, reported the worst air quality in Canada on Friday morning, with levels in the “very high risk range,” according to the Canadian government.