{"id":8749,"date":"2025-06-06T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8749"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:45:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:45:46","slug":"air-quality-in-toronto-among-worst-in-the-world-amid-wildfire-smoke-global-tracker-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/air-quality-in-toronto-among-worst-in-the-world-amid-wildfire-smoke-global-tracker-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality in Toronto among worst in the world amid wildfire smoke, global tracker shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto is currently the second most polluted major city in the world as wildfire smoke spreads across the city, according to a global tracker.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, puts the city below Santiago, Chile, and above Montreal, which is in third place as it also faces wildfire smoke from western provinces.<\/p>\n<p>As of noon Friday, air quality in Toronto was above 10 on Environment Canada\u2019s air quality health index, which means \u201cvery high risk,\u201d according to the weather agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>A value between four to six is considered moderate risk, while seven to 10 is high risk, the website reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto is currently the second most polluted major city in the world as wildfire smoke spreads across the city, according to a global tracker.<\/p>\n<p>The ranking by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company, puts the city below Santiago, Chile, and above Montreal, which is in third place as it also faces wildfire smoke from western provinces.<\/p>\n<p>As of noon Friday, air quality in Toronto was above 10 on Environment Canada\u2019s air quality health index, which means \u201cvery high risk,\u201d according to the weather agency\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/air-quality-in-toronto-among-worst-in-the-world-amid-wildfire-smoke-global-tracker-shows\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air quality in Toronto among worst in the world amid wildfire smoke, global tracker shows<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1132,315,96,126,1150,1129,282,245,119,362,133,207,165],"class_list":["post-8749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-quality","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-climate-crisis","tag-environment-and-climate-change-canada","tag-forest-fires","tag-manitoba","tag-n95-respirators","tag-ontario","tag-saskatchewan","tag-toronto","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8753,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8749\/revisions\/8753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}