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A dirty brown cloud of pollutants descends on downtown Toronto today, and the environment ministry says it will be with us for the rest of the week. T(...)
A dirty brown cloud of pollutants descends on downtown Toronto today, and the environment ministry says it will be with us for the rest of the week. T(...)

A dirty brown cloud of pollutants descends on downtown Toronto today, and the environment ministry says it will be with us for the rest of the week. T(...)

Date7/6/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: A dirty brown cloud of pollutants descends on downtown Toronto today; and the environment ministry says it will be with us for the rest of the week. The air pollution index hit 40 before noon and was expected to keep rising. The acceptable level is 32.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0010927F
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