CBC Manitoba: Revamp of Manitoba’s air quality monitoring infrastructure needed for ‘smokier future,’ says expert

Manitoba is looking to expand the infrastructure it has to monitor air quality, a step experts say is important to better map pollution and its long-term health effects worsened by smoke billowing from wildfires.

“This isn’t a problem that’s going away,” said Christopher Pascoe, a University of Manitoba associate professor whose research focuses on the impact of wildfire smoke on chronic respiratory diseases.

Thousands of people have been forced out of their homes by wildfires in Manitoba since May. It has been a record-breaking season where the province has been put under a state of emergency twice to address the influx of people fleeing from their home — some from worsening air quality.

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