Toronto among global cities with the worst air quality amid Canadian wildfires

Much of Ontario remains under a special air quality statement on Friday morning as a haze of wildfire smoke chokes out the province.

Smoke from massive wildfires in Northern Ontario, Manitoba and further west has affected air quality in Southern Ontario this week , and — in case you haven’t been outside in a while — conditions worsened on Thursday evening.

A thick layer of smoke has now engulfed portions of the province, including Toronto, which ranks as the third-worst city in the world in terms of air quality as of Friday.

By Friday morning at 9 a.m., Toronto ranked third-worst on IQAir’s Air Quality Index for major cities, behind Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Montreal — the latter affected by the same wildfires filling Ontario skies with soot particles.

T.O. had held the #2 position