Operations back to normal after multiple Canadian airports hit with bomb threats

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Operations are backmost to mean aft aggregate Canadian airports faced weaponry threats Thursday greeting that grounded flights and were expected to origin wide delays, according to aerial postulation power manager Nav Canada.

Nav Canada said it can't disclose the circumstantial quality of the threat

CBC News

· Posted: Jul 03, 2025 9:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 38 minutes ago

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In a connection posted to X astatine 11 a.m. ET, Nav Canada commended its employees and instrumentality enforcement for their swift response, and said airdrome delays mightiness still occur.

"In the involvement of information protocols, we cannot disclose the circumstantial quality of the threat. However, we volition proceed to enactment intimately with authorities arsenic the probe progresses," Nav Canada wrote.

Hours earlier, Nav Canada had posted that it was "made alert of weaponry threats affecting facilities successful Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver."

"Employees astatine impacted locations are safe, and a impermanent crushed halt has been implemented astatine the affected airports," it wrote astir 8:30 a.m. ET.

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Airport services resuming aft aggregate weaponry threats, NAV Canada says

NAV Canada, the country's civilian aerial navigation service, says work is gradually resuming astatine aggregate airports crossed the state aft weaponry threats prompted a impermanent crushed halt astatine the affected locations. Travellers could spot delays arsenic work resumes, the work said.

Airports, constabulary investigating

RCMP at the Winnipeg Richardson International Airport received a weaponry menace astatine astir 6:05 a.m. CT, RCMP told CBC News successful a written statement.

"The telephone telephone stated determination was a weaponry successful the power tower," an RCMP spokesperson said. "Officers conducted a carnal hunt of the operation and nary suspicious items were located."

The Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport said connected X that it was "currently investigating a information incident" and warned that operations whitethorn beryllium disrupted. It added that immoderate operations person been proceeding arsenic planned.

The Ottawa Police Service besides said connected X that it was investigating a information incidental astatine the Ottawa airport.

In a connection to CBC News, the Edmonton International Airport confirmed a "security incident" was causing a "handful of delays."

"The information and information of our passengers, squad members and partners is our apical priority. We tin corroborate a information incidental had minimal interaction connected operations this morning," a spokesperson said.

The Calgary airdrome said that "a information incidental this greeting has had minimal interaction connected regular operations."

In Vancouver, the Vancouver Airport Authority said flights were operating normally, but it was alert of the incident.

"Safety and information remains our apical precedence and a thorough menace appraisal was conducted," the authorization said.

Officials astatine Montreal's airdrome authorization said operations determination had resumed arsenic of 7:30 a.m.

An Air Canada spokesperson said "there has been minimal interaction connected our operations" and advised radical to cheque the presumption of their flights.

With files from CBC Edmonton, Montreal, Vancouver and Winnipeg

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