Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Alanna Smith
Publication Date: July 14, 2025 - 17:43
What are the health risks of wildfire smoke? How to protect your lungs from poor air quality
July 14, 2025
Raging wildfires in Western Canada have blanketed skies with acrid smoke, prompting air quality statements or warnings in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.
Residents in these provinces were advised on Monday to limit time outdoors to avoid health effects. In the morning, Toronto’s Air Quality Health Index rating was more than 10, which is considered “very high risk.”
A stretch of southern Ontario remains under a special air quality statement today amid smoke from wildfires burning in parts of the country.
August 5, 2025 - 09:00 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A stretch of southern Ontario remains under a special air quality statement today amid smoke from wildfires burning in parts of the country.
August 5, 2025 - 09:00 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Air Canada flight attendants are entering the final day of voting on whether to give a strike mandate to their union.The vote, which began July 28 and closes today, comes after the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees concluded the conciliation process with no deal reached.The union represents more than 10,000 flight attendants who have been in contract talks since the start of the year.
August 5, 2025 - 08:41 | | The Globe and Mail
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