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A lot of good the No Smoking signs around Commonwealth Stadium have done this week.

With an air quality warning in effect Wednesday due to smoke from British Columbia wildfires, the Edmonton Eskimos were chased inside to practice in the confines of the indoor fieldhouse.

And if conditions don’t improve, Saturday’s game against the visiting Montreal Alouettes (7 p.m., TSN, ESPN+, 630 CHED) may have to be rescheduled.

“If we’re not allowed to practise out in it right now and if it doesn’t get any better, I don’t know what else we’re going to do,” said Eskimos head coach Jason Maas. “So I’ll let that be up to the league, how they’re going to handle that, but we’ll do whatever they say.

“But obviously, it was bad enough out there today that we were advised not to go out in it. So we’ll just see what it’s like come game time. We’ll show up ready to play, and if we can’t, we can’t.”

A thick haze hung over the downtown skyline as the Eskimos kicked off their regularly scheduled two-hour-and-20 minute practice. But as the sun rose Thursday morning, it cast a dull orange hue that seemed almost eerie.