As if cold, snow, slush and sleet weren’t enough

MONTREAL — Add "smog alert" to "wind-chill factor" and the other usual items on the winter weather check list. Cities in many parts of Central Canada over the past several days were enveloped in a thick haze of pollution, the kind usually associated with hot and humid summer temperatures.
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