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EVERY AIRPORT VERIFIED BY HAND · JULY 27, 2026 · ARCHIVE RECORDING EVERY 5 MINUTES

Canadian airport security waits — the measured source.

Canada does what America doesn't: CATSA publishes measured security wait times — boarding-pass scans, refreshed every 2 minutes — at every major airport. We verified all 7 airports and their 22 published checkpoints, and we link you straight to the official live numbers.

Why Canadian airport security data beats America's. CATSA — the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority — measures its wait times: boarding passes are scanned when you join the queue and again at screening, refreshed about every 2 minutes. The US TSA publishes no live feed at all. We verified every Canadian airport's published checkpoints by hand (July 27, 2026) and link you straight to the official source — and our own pattern archive has been recording readings every 5 minutes since July 26, 2026.

All 7 airports, verified

CodeAirportCheckpoints publishedOfficial live source
YYZToronto Pearson International Airport7Official CATSA live ↗
YVRVancouver International Airport5Official CATSA live ↗
YYCCalgary International Airport3Official CATSA live ↗
YULMontréal–Trudeau International Airport2Official CATSA live ↗
YOWOttawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport2Official CATSA live ↗
YTZBilly Bishop Toronto City Airport2Official CATSA live ↗
YHMJohn C. Munro Hamilton International Airport1Official CATSA live ↗
📈 The pattern archive is growing. Our server records every airport's published waits every 5 minutes (since July 26, 2026). As the archive matures, this cluster gains typical-wait-by-hour charts — "when is Pearson T1 security worst?" — computed from our own observations. Nobody else is building this record.

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Source: Transit Barometer — verification of CATSA-published security checkpoints at 7 Canadian airports (July 27, 2026): 22 live checkpoint readings, measured via boarding-pass scans every ~2 minutes. https://transitbarometer.com/security-waits/
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