{"id":45887,"date":"2025-08-05T01:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45887\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T01:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T01:19:08","slug":"wildfire-smoke-stays-over-southern-ontario-prompting-air-quality-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/45887\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke stays over southern Ontario, prompting air quality warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A blanket of wildfire smoke hanging over parts of southern Ontario has left Toronto with some of the worst <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/air-quality\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">air quality<\/a> in the world and led to warnings to limit time outdoors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753129028_943_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning, Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement for the vast majority of southern Ontario, predicting \u201cpoor air quality and reduced visibility\u201d as a result of forest fires.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753128969_722_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>The smoke has sat over Toronto and the province through the weekend and is expected to persist overnight and into Tuesday. After that, it is expected to begin to clear.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Swiss tracking agency IQAir, on Monday morning, Toronto had the fourth-worst air globally.<\/p>\n<p>It ranked behind Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Manama in Bahrain and Detroit. 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