Overview

• Environment Canada has issued special air quality statements across Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, with Toronto’s AQHI peaking above 10 before easing to high-risk levels
• Manitoba remains in its second provincewide state of emergency of the season, displacing more than 12,600 residents and straining local services
• At least 558 wildfires are burning nationwide, over 150 of which are out of control, testing provincial and federal firefighting capacities
• The August Lake wildfire near Princeton, B.C., holds at 14 hectares under an evacuation alert after its order was downgraded, with surface flames spreading slowly
• The City of Winnipeg is preparing its convention centre with cots and supplies to shelter a renewed influx of evacuees fleeing wildfire threats