As a recently-transplanted-in-Halifax Montrealer, those wood smoke complaints in Montreal are 100% the result of the gentrification of the Plateau, Mile End, and now the Mile Ex area. For the last 10-15 years, those neighbourhoods have slowly been filling up with yuppies who want to live in the cool parts of the city, but then immediately start objecting to everything about the neighbourhoods they've moved into.
There are no "horrific air quality problems" caused by St-Viateur or Fairmont bagels. All the wood burning restaurants/bakeries in Montreal combined release less than 10% of the particulates and pollution as suburban commuters do when they're driving into the city everyday. One bagel shop in Dartmouth isn't even going to make a measurable impact on the pollution produced by Halifax's lazy, self-indulgent sprawl.
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There are no "horrific air quality problems" caused by St-Viateur or Fairmont bagels. All the wood burning restaurants/bakeries in Montreal combined release less than 10% of the particulates and pollution as suburban commuters do when they're driving into the city everyday. One bagel shop in Dartmouth isn't even going to make a measurable impact on the pollution produced by Halifax's lazy, self-indulgent sprawl.