Environment Canada has issued special air quality statements for southwestern Ontario as Prairie wildfire smoke sits over swaths of the province.

On Monday morning, Environment Canada issued a special air quality statement for the vast majority of southern Ontario, predicting "poor air quality" as a result of forest fires.

Wildfires burning in Canada were causing unhealthy air quality across parts of North America on Monday. By Judson Jones Judson Jones is a meteorologist and reporter for The Times. Canadian wildfires burning across northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan are sending smoke through central Canada,