Exhaust gasses always travel up. All the pollution from the US can’t travel past the north poll (because it’s the top of the earth) so it just kinda lingers in Canada until it can get distilled into Moosehead Lager.

They gotta sweep those forests, clearly.

I remember thinking last summer it was a good thing we still had some N95s in the closet. I wore them when I was riding around on my bike and they did help.

Because the air doesn’t give a fuck about national borders…?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

But the thick plumes of smoke and miles of haze released by a record-breaking season of wildfires deteriorated the country’s air so much that it has fallen behind the United States for the first time on record, highlighting the wide-ranging and damaging effects of the blazes.

The bulk of those communities were clustered in Canada’s western provinces, where wildfires engulfed the largest swaths of land.

The northern city, typically out of reach of major wildfires, made headlines over the summer when nearly 20,000 residents were forced to flee their homes as multiple fires converged upon the region.

Fires across Canada from British Columbia to Nova Scotia prompted waves of air quality warnings across the country, including major cities in Ontario – a region relatively unaccustomed to the sooty haze and eerie orange skies of wildfire smoke.

“We are seeing records set for everything from drought to snowfall to heat, and what we are hearing from experts is that this summer might be a very difficult one,” the provincial premier, David Eby, told reporters on Monday as he announced early preparations for the upcoming wildfire season.

In the neighbouring province of Alberta, officials also marked an early start to the fire season after a dry and mild winter.

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