Roundup: Wildfire smoke makes air quality dangerously poor in Ottawa


By Lin Wei

OTTAWA, June 6 (Xinhua) -- As wildfires blazed in western Quebec and northern Ontario near Ottawa, the air quality of Canada's capital city was so bad that it cracked through the top of a risk scale on Tuesday.

Environment Canada warned that forest fires may keep the air dangerous to human health through most of the week.

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