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Olivia Bowden in Toronto

Canada wildfires prompt severe air quality alerts across country and US

a helicopter flies by a giant plume of smoke
A helicopter flies by the Wesley Ridge wildfire near Coombs, British Columbia, on Sunday. Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock

Billowing smoke from hundreds of out-of-control wildfires – most of which are in the Canadian Prairies – have caused severe air quality alerts across Canada and the United States.

Detroit, Michigan, and the Canadian cities of Montreal and Toronto, recorded some of the worst air quality in the world on Monday, according to a ranking by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company.

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