Cough, Cough!

 All that nasty smoke from American wildfires is being blown north and right into the B.C. mainland folks.

Vancouver ranked as having the worst air quality of any major city in the world, second only to Portland, Oregon, according to the website World Air Quality. 

According to the B.C. government, a number of communities close to the U.S. border are seeing high or very high health risks as measured by the air quality index this morning. 

These include Metro Vancouver, Victoria, the Okanagan region and Kamloops.