Overview
- FlightAware reported 539 delays and 343 cancellations at Pearson on Thursday, with further disruptions reported this morning.
- Toronto declared a major snowstorm condition and a significant weather event at 5 p.m., opening its emergency operations centre and imposing snow‑route parking bans as extra crews and equipment were deployed.
- Ontario Provincial Police logged roughly 200 crashes and about 125 vehicles stuck in the Toronto–Hamilton area by midday Thursday, urging people to avoid non‑essential travel.
- A Via Rail Toronto–Ottawa train struck a snowplow around 1:40 p.m.; the agency said all 205 passengers were uninjured.
- At Billy Bishop, Air Canada cancelled all flights and Porter scrubbed some, while Pearson kept clearing roughly five million square metres of airfield as passengers on some flights waited hours to deplane or depart.