Stratford still smells alternately of lilacs and pig manure. According to Environment Canada, the thickest part of a major smoke plume is wafting south to the east of the Waterloo-Kitchener-Cambridge conurbation, so the bulk of it is passing over Toronto, Burlington and Hamilton. Nevertheless, my eyes are stinging today.

My brother reports that the haze is heavy in Ottawa and everything smells like ashtrays.