Localized harm

Wood smoke stories from Canada

Photo: Armidale, NSW, courtesy of Australian Air Quality Group

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Overall pollution was literally 100 times the city’s background level.

I live in Kitchener, Ontario a city which permits recreational backyard bonfires…

…I was forced to sell my home and move away…

…the stench permeates your entire home, your clothing, your hair, and you can even taste it.

In 2010 at age 58 I developed aggressive diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (DLBCL) …

…I have spent perhaps close to $4,000 in the past 3 years trying to alleviate our situation…

Vancouver, B.C. neighbours insist on heating their house by burning wood …