According to modelling from Fire Smoke Canada, the Thunder Bay region is one of only a handful of areas across Canada not affected by smoke in some way. 

"You're pulling in air from the lakes, you're pulling in clean air, you're not getting that smokey air that southern Ontario is seeing right now," she said. "The question becomes where are the fires and what is your wind direction?" 

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