Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Claire McFarlane, Sophia Coppolino, Temur Durrani
Publication Date: June 6, 2025 - 14:11
Wildfire smoke is affecting air quality across the country. Here’s what you need to know
June 6, 2025
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How’s the air quality today where you live? Consult our live map of advisories by city or check the Environment Canada forecasts.
Hazardous fumes and thick smoke have blanketed Western Canada, extending toward large parts of Ontario and even beyond the country’s border – an ominous sign that wildfire season is well under way.
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Joy Fiddler sat outside a hotel smoking a cigarette, as her daughter, Saffron, registered their family of nine with the Canadian Red Cross. Fleeing from an out-of-control wildfire near her Northern Ontario home in Sandy Lake First Nation, she had slept for less than an hour after arriving more than 1,500 kilometres away in Cornwall.“All I saw was orange,” Ms. Fiddler, 51, said Monday afternoon, recalling her 11-hour wait at the Sandy Lake airport, where military aircraft and helicopters have been landing since Saturday, struggling to airlift nearly 3,000 people amid heavy smoke.
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