When indoors, keep windows and doors closed as much as possible. When there is an extreme heat event occurring with poor air quality, prioritize keeping cool.
Protect your indoor air from wildfire smoke. Actions can include using a clean, good quality air filter in your ventilation system and/or a certified portable air cleaner that can filter fine particles.
If you must spend time outdoors, a well-constructed, well-fitting and properly worn respirator type mask (such as a NIOSH-certified N95 or equivalent respirator) can reduce your exposure to the fine particles in the smoke. Even though exposure may be reduced, there can still be risks to health.
Check in on others who are in your care or live nearby who may be more likely to be impacted by outdoor air pollution.
Always follow guidance from local authorities.
Learn more at https://www.canada.ca/wildfire-smoke.
Smoke is causing or expected to cause poor air quality and reduced visibility.
Smoke from forest fires over the Prairies will affect southern Ontario tonight.
Air quality and visibility due to wildfire smoke can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to hour.
Air quality is expected to improve from north to south on Thursday.
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As smoke levels increase, health risks increase. Limit time outdoors. Consider reducing or rescheduling outdoor sports, activities and events.
You may experience mild and common symptoms such as eye, nose and throat irritation, headaches or a mild cough. More serious but less common symptoms include wheezing, chest pains or severe cough. If you think you are having a medical emergency, seek immediate medical assistance.
People more likely to be impacted by outdoor air pollution, including people aged 65 and older, pregnant people, infants and young children, people with an existing illness or chronic health condition, and people who work outdoors, should reduce or reschedule strenuous activities outdoors and seek medical attention if experiencing symptoms.
Visit http://www.airhealth.ca for information on how to reduce your health risk and your personal contribution to pollution levels, as well as for current and forecast AQHI values.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.
Peter Watson, of Watson Investments, writes a weekly column called Dollars & Sense.
In simple terms, a tariff is nothing more than a tax that the United States charges on goods imported into the country.
For example, if an Ontario wine producer exported its product to the U.S., it would be sold like any other product in its country. The only difference is that in addition to paying the price of the bottle of wine, the customer would also be charged a tariff tax.
It is the American consumer who pays the tax, and the American government uses that tax. From a financial perspective, it hurts the consumer because it increases the cost, but benefits the American government because it receives the tax.
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The second motivation is that if Canadian wine becomes more expensive, it will encourage the American purchaser to buy their own domestic wine. President Trump is attempting to have imported products sold in his country now be produced in the U.S.
It hurts the Canadian wine producer because wine sales to the United States are expected to decline. The tariff tax on a bottle of wine is a simple example. We will consider two more types of transactions.
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Canada sells many products to the United States because the U.S. is unable to meet domestic demand from its own country. Another reason is that the Canadian product could be less expensive if sourced from Canada versus the U.S.
The loser in these scenarios is the American consumer. They will now pay more for those purchases.
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The potential problem for the United States is that these new tariffs will increase the inflation rate in the country. That will result in higher interest rates that will be needed to slow down the inflation rate.
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Higher interest rates will be particularly challenging for American consumers and businesses with outstanding loans, as well as for the federal government due to the interest it pays on its massive and growing debt.
The U.S. tariff idea could backfire.
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, of Watson Investments MBA, CFP®, R.F.P., CIM®, FCSI offers a weekly financial planning column, Dollars & Sense. He can be contacted through www.watsoninvestments.com.
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