58123 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/air-quality-statement-toronto-june-18-1.6880797?cmp=rssToronto City skyline, from along Lake Ontario in the Portlands and then from Riverdale, is seen on June 8, when the city was placed under a special air quality statement for the third day in a row. The city was placed under it again on Sunday due to smoke plumes from forest fires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario.2023-06-18T23:31+0200CBC-2e35a8910f40466aa8ff21fa49454dfe20230618233100https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/smoky-conditions-return-to-toronto-as-environment-canada-warns-of-air-pollution-due-to-wildfires-1.6446124Individuals living in Toronto and other regions of southern Ontario are being warned of smoky conditions due to wildfires in the area. Environment Canada issued an air quality statement around 4:30 p.m. on Sunday saying that smoke from forest fires is causing a higher level of air pollution.2023-06-18T23:10+0200barrie-ca9019fd6eca68df253662e0bc4ec9cd20230618231000https://tv6.news/foreign-firefighters-summoned-to-battle-massive-canadian-blazes/French firefighters joining the battle against a wildfire in Canada were caught off guard by the intensity of the flames, with a commander pointing out that this is unlike anything they have faced back home. As climate change continues affecting boreal forests around the world leading to more....2023-06-18T22:42+0200tv6-540c21054334d85fb8334ce42350906c20230618224200https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/experts-explain-link-between-wildfires-and-climate-change-1.6444990This year's wildfire season in Canada has been wild. So far, more than 2,600 fires have consumed about 5.9 million hectares of forest across the country, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. This represents more than three times the amount of area that burned in the entirety of....2023-06-18T18:10+0200ctvnews-d1ac9962b19b5bc5099be38fd36fe19020230618181000