{"id":40535,"date":"2025-08-01T23:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40535\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T23:50:07","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-monitor-smoky-air-ahead-of-fridays-cfl-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40535\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers monitor smoky air ahead of Friday’s CFL game"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CFL and Winnipeg Blue Bombers say they’re monitoring air quality ahead of Friday’s scheduled game against the Toronto Argonauts.<\/p>\n

Forest fire smoke from northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba has drifted into the Manitoba capital. Winnipeg’s air quality health index was at 10-plus \u2014 or very high risk \u2014 as of 10 a.m. CT.<\/p>\n

The game at Princess Auto Stadium was still set for 7:30 p.m., with air quality expected to improve throughout the day, the league and team said in a news release.<\/p>\n

The CFL’s air quality policy states that if the air quality health index reaches eight or higher, which Environment Canada deems high risk, during warm-ups or the game, players will be sent to their dressing rooms.<\/p>\n

All CFL stadiums are equipped with real-time\u00a0air-quality monitoring systems, and an update was expected in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Poor air quality in Regina forced the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan Roughriders to postpone their July 13 game<\/a> to the following afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CFL and Winnipeg Blue Bombers say they’re monitoring air quality ahead of Friday’s scheduled game against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-40535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}