2026-10-28 from cbc.ca

Deaths linked to wildfire smoke in Canada have exploded by about 275 per cent since the early 2000s according to a major global report that tracks connections between health and climate change.

The report, published Tuesday in The Lancet, found that an average of approximately 4,000 deaths were associated with wildfire smoke in Canada each year between 2021-25. That's compared with an average of only 1,050 annually in 2003-12.

Ian Hamilton, the chair in planetary health at the George Institute for Global Health at Imperial College in London, co-authored the study, which comes a decade since the prestigious medical journal began tracking the health impacts of climate change.

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