Ontario wildfires make Toronto's air quality worst globally as smoke spreads across North America

First Nations communities including Collins, Ontario evacuated with minimal warning; entire communities destroyed; residents fled by boat across lakes.

On a Wednesday in July, Toronto became the most polluted city on Earth — not through industry or neglect, but through fire and heat converging across northern Ontario in a way that felt less like weather and more like reckoning. More than a hundred wildfires, fed by record-breaking temperatures, turned the sky the color of old brass and erased at least one First Nations community entirely. The smoke that followed did not respect borders, drifting south into the American midwest and east toward the Atlantic seaboard, carrying with it a question that climate scientists have long been asking: at

Ontario wildfires make Toronto's air quality worst globally as smoke spreads across North America

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