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Canada wildfires: What to do when the air quality is bad outside

A person paddleboards along the Potomac River as haze blankets over monuments on the National Mall in Washington, DC [Stephanie Scarbrough/The Associated Press]

A smokey haze from Canada’s worst-ever early wildfire season is expected to be a regular occurrence across some regions of North America as the hottest months of the year approach.

On Friday, about half of the United States population was under some form of air quality warning – either due to the northern blazes or to a relentless heat wave in the south.

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