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Hazardous Air Quality Hits U.S. From Canadian Wildfire Smoke. What You Need To Know - July 16

Dangerous smoke from more than 180 Canadian wildfires is blanketing parts of the Midwest and Northeast, turning skies orange from Toronto to Niagara Falls, air quality alerts are now in effect across

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It's smokey, A, E, I, OR, U 🇺🇸
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The smoke is making my mother bad sick and carney needs to put a stop the fires because if she dies he will have to answer to my family
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Ok, so Washington state can send all their wildfire smoke to Canada and that’s somehow ok?
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Wars cause severe air pollution and damage the environment. Bombs and missiles release toxic gases, heavy metals, and fine soot directly into the air. Military strikes on oil facilities and power plants send dangerous chemicals into the sky, which can create toxic smoke and harmful black rain.
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That's funny you talk about the president's speech tonight and then you talked about intelligence. Usually one has nothing to do with the other
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This is probably related to basically non-existent environmental standards where most manufacturing is done in countries like India and China. What happens in one country affects the entire planet.
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Trees produce our air
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@hitbac75 From YouTube ↗ 17 Jul 2026 1
Minnesota is burning.
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Once again the United States only make things worse an watch Canada while people loosing lives and displaced during fires. Canada sends our candian made water bombers to hell American fires and we don’t complain about smoke etc but last year and this year American politicians have complained about smoke because of forest fires. Build a wall!!!!! More Canadians and Americans die from guns and illegal guns flowing into Canada. Deal with that first!!! Save lives instead of spewing smoke.
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Hold a Congressional meeting /investigation on DT's accusation on 2020 election. Present evidence. Firing of election people is not proper. End the BS now.
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This toxic smoke will like air always find its way into places of human habitation. Sorry no way to prevent it. Via normal drafts, vehicles, homes and businesses making some level of exposure unavoidable! Mask. Therefore air purification is a must. A box fan with a moist cloth draped over the intake can filter out some but not all (:-○)
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@I-One121 From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 3
Inept Canada with wildfires AGAIN ..🤦
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If Israel cannot hold to a cease fire then we don't need them as an Ally.
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Ellen, neo you think our country can finish? Iran off I'm not a supporter for Iran by any means. But I'll tell you one thing they weren't who they were from the 70s that era is gone. The only ones that have an upper hand in war right now is rushing Ukraine because they're using drone warfare. They have evolved the US is stuck in the 80s. When it comes to a lot of its military tech, and not only that, our country worries way too much about spending money now, if it 's our money and our tax dollars are taken, it's not really a problem, they'll just keep printing money and make everything for us more expensive.That's what they've always done.Literally, since they removed gold from the currency, which destroyed this country honestly.
As for Iran, they're not a pushover. Anymore, they're evolving the warfare faster than we are. And some areas, yes, we have better technology. The only problem is they can keep sending really cheap drones while we are sending a bunch of expensive s***
And the only reason why we are helping Israel to begin with. It's because we have relations with them. And they probably have dirt on us somewhere. I'm assuming um, very clear on that everybody else should be
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@CWCEEDUB From YouTube ↗ 16 Jul 2026 2
Here in the Toledo Ohio area there is literally a haze, very noticeable looking out of my kitchen window into the backyard. Their politics figuratively nauseates me and now they are literally nauseating me. I’ve lived a stones throw from them all my life, not a fan.
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Excellent reporting thank you
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The Blanche statements were full of lies and distortions 😮
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This smoke smells and looks like chemicals. This is about the 4th time in my life that smoke has changed the sky and air around me. It has never smelled like THIS. DONT BREATHE THIS AIR.
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In Canada our greedy premier Doug Ford cut funding for stopping wildfires. And he keeps cutting the funding every year!
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The wildfire smoke came back?! Man that was years ago back in 2023 when that happened the last time!