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00:00 Nearly 500 active wildfires according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
00:07 From one coast to the other, say the local media here.
00:11 Half of them, 250 wildfires are considered out of control nationwide here in Canada.
00:18 And of course the smog is affecting major cities throughout the country.
00:24 In the latest hours, Toronto was one of them with one of the worst ranking in terms of air quality.
00:32 The smog is back here in Montreal in the south of Quebec for the second time in just one week.
00:38 It will be less significant and less harmful, said the authorities,
00:43 though than the smog we had who blanketed the city on Sunday
00:48 when Montreal was ranked the worst city in the world in terms of air quality.