{"id":197621,"date":"2026-09-05T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197621\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T21:02:21","slug":"canadian-forces-snowbirds-whooshes-over-lake-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/197621\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Forces Snowbirds whooshes over Lake Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">TORONTO \u2014 Jets roared over downtown Toronto on Saturday as the Canadian International Air Show kicked off. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This year\u2019s show, hosted annually on the city\u2019s lakeshore, features the final flight of the Snowbirds over Ontario\u2019s capital until at least the 2030s. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The nine-jet aerobatic team will be grounded at the end of the 2026 season as their signature CT-114 Tutor jets are replaced by the CT-157 Siskin II. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sandy Seymour, an air show spectator decked out in a Snowbirds hat and shirt, says she\u2019s disappointed the federal government didn\u2019t find a way to replace the Snowbirds\u2019 jets without grounding them. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SVLJQSUMQ5A6HPDGMZKAQWSQTI.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>CF Snowbirds Spectators look on as the Canadian Forces Snowbirds perform during the Canadian International Air Show in Toronto, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She says the Canadian National Exhibition fair won\u2019t be the same without the Snowbirds performing their high-flying stunts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The air show coincides with the final weekend of the CNE and Seymour says it\u2019s a yearly tradition for her to go to the fair and watch the jets soar over the exhibition grounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was joined by hundreds others on the CNE grounds who had their eyes and cameras trained to the sky as fighter jets dating from the Second World War era to the modern day careened over the banks of Lake Ontario. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/UH23ABKIERGRZE3FCO3O5F7TLU.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>CF Snowbirds The Canadian Forces Snowbirds pass the CN Tower as they perform during the Canadian International Air Show in Toronto, on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Sammy Kogan <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Snowbirds have performed some 2,700 times in the Tutor jets since 1971, becoming staples of national events and celebrations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Snowbirds\u2019 final show is set for Nov. 15 at the Grey Cup in Calgary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kathryn Mannie, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Jets roared over downtown Toronto on Saturday as the Canadian International Air Show kicked off. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[525,290,48,2176],"class_list":["post-197621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-business","tag-national","tag-toronto","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}