Canada Day fireworks and evening events canceled in Ottawa after storms

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Canada Day evening celebrations at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, including the fireworks display, were cancelled after prolonged severe thunderstorms brought extremely heavy rain, strong winds, lightning and threats of hail. Canadian Heritage announced the cancellation after Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning and attendees ran for cover to the nearby Canadian War Museum as conditions worsened. Thousands had gathered earlier at LeBreton Flats Park for noon ceremonies relocated from Parliament Hill, where Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke and praised unity; astronaut Jeremy Hansen then addressed the crowd of several thousand. The storms caused more than a dozen flight cancellations out of Ottawa and prevented the prime minister’s plane from taking off on schedule, forcing the cancellation of his planned evening appearance in Edmonton. Officials cited flash flooding and hail risk as reasons to call off the LeBreton Flats evening show and fireworks.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸

@nothoodlum.bsky.social

The Empire State Building was lit with red and white lights to celebrate Canada Day.

369345d ago

Momsters72

Just spent four days in Montreal. Canadians are ridiculously decent.

🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀55

Busy day for the Empire State building.

Flemming Erik Carlson47

Happy Canada Day to all of you Canadians out there! 🇨🇦

Strandschaf39

On top of honouring a neighbour, it currently comes with the added benefit of pissing off The Clown.

cross53.bsky.social32

Thank you Empire State Bldg folks. Very neighbourly of you.

Sue M27

We LOVE our neighbors to the North

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TommyBoy38

Dear Canada - We hate him too! Love, Sane Americans 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

Real Robert8

Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends! You make the world better. 🤍❤️🇨🇦🫎

Leia Taillefur7

That's what I'm celebrating this weekend, not Trump's 250th.

Laura Lee 🇨🇦🍁🦫7

Thank you New York. 🇨🇦

Rufus Hickok4

Canada is a fantastic country with many weird and wonderful artists to discover and beautiful places to visit and more Americans should do that.

Chez Andre2

Thank you New York, we are always treated nicely in your city. Been there a few times and coming back when the pedo is gone.

Rachel Gilmore

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗

CBC headline reads: Canada Day activities in Ottawa cancelled due to
'extreme weather,' including fireworks

Torrential rain falls on the capital

By: Gabrielle Huston

Published July 1 at 3:21pmET

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Supervising Animation Wizard19

Funny how Carney found billions of dollars for a plague of new AI data centres but suddenly can't find the cash to invest in green energy.

Weird Al Swearengen19

This headline implies that the weather includes fireworks, which I agree seems very extreme.

Whitney Dickson19

Yup. I just worked Canada Day, doing manual labour, at a job site where the actual temperature hit 36° and felt like 47° Celsius. Pretty hard to feel patriotic today.

Adam Wight -- he/him9

we can't afford NOT to fight it

Brian7

What kind of duplicitous shithead do you have to be to claim we can't afford to not increase carbon emissions?

showdonttell.bsky.social6

"Short-term goal" This is completely backwards! We are already behind! I feel like I am going crazy.

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Paris Marx492

we must accept more extreme weather and more deadly natural disasters to achieve a few tenths of a percentage point of additional gdp growth in the short term 🥰

Conor Curtis35

We are. But you want data centres specifically to burn more gas: www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m... Making wildfires worse Rather than listening to Canadians, including Albertans, united in wanting stronger climate action & not wanting a pipeline publicly financed: www.theenergymix.com/polling-show...

Jess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉14

We can't afford to not be fighting climate change right now.

dustin9

"build national unity around fossil fuels, will you?" — nature

Chris H | End Days Engine (he/him)2

Mark Carney is just Stephen Harper hiding under a tub of red paint. The fact Liberal voters applaud him and Conservative voters hate him tells you exactly everything you need to know about how much voters treat political parties as if they were sports teams and how little policy matters.

Jérôme Melançon2

I mean when the weather even includes fireworks, you know it's not going well

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁

@minibubbly.bsky.social

There were tears of joy as dozens of new Canadians celebrated their first Canada Day as citizens Wednesday in downtown Vancouver. #Canada Sixty people took their oath of citizenship inside a ballroom at Canada Place, /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁15

/2 including Janice Walker, a Filipino immigrant who was met with boisterous cheers from her family as she took the stage.

Kara Fagan 🇨🇦 Liberal9

Welcome to each one of our new Canadians ❤️🇨🇦❤️

debf56.bsky.social3

My daughter in law just got confirmation that she is now a Canadian citizen! Her oath takes place via zoom later in the month. We are so, so proud!

Tempa3

How nice to get a citizenship ceremony on Canada Day! I think mine was on an April day.

Mo2

We really don’t need yall bragging about a big cool ballroom right now. (And congrats to all the new Canadians!)

Sandy B 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇨🇦1

I remember my Citizen day ceremony, it was beautiful and I will never forget it.

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Susan🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍁🇨🇦🐶17

Wonderful! ❤️🇨🇦 Welcome all. We’re so glad you chose us 😊

Bruce D. Cowherd 🇨🇦5

#cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky #TeamCanada #CanadaProud #ElbowsUpCanada 🍁

TULER 🌱🌈

@supertuler.art

It’s Canada Day, so naturally I must post… Poutine takeout. 🍟 Yum yum.

Takeout — Fries. Cheese curds. Gravy. This legendary slop scratches some kinda itch only poutine can scratch. It’s simple, but good.

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kenofseattle3

Canada, the US and Mexico might as well be triplets born to the same mother. Don't let fucking Trump get in the way of the love we have for one another. He's not going to be around that much longer.

Hakawne1

hello I'm on my way to have some thank u

Jess 🌺🥚🐞ΘΔ&1

🦨one day we wanna try some poutine

Star Wolf Drive Thru1

the shrekening 😭 is that an emote?? lmaoo

Ember1

This is something I’ve always wanted to try, as a UK northerner we do chips and gravy which is always so good

cosmicsunflower.bsky.social1

It looks like BBQ sauce, is it a different kind of gravy?

RJ City

@rjcity.bsky.social

The space between Canada Day & the 4th of July is known as the Lorne Greene Memorial Weekend and can only be celebrated by citizens of both countries.

16744d ago

Tom.8

You got yourselves one of those dual country contracts? Good deal.

dolli*knitrix5

I'm far too British to understand this skeet

David Winter3

And that includes Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"The Infection" Vaughn Forcythe2

I have to imagine there's no better way to celebrate than listening to his music career.

Just Call Me Amanda🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛2

I feel like you must have a secret handshake? Or is it just "you shall know them by their denim"?

Majorshrug1

So marathons of Bonanza or Battlestar Galactica.

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk

@lukaszukab.bsky.social

This was a fabulous Canada Day! All #ForeverCanadian volunteers across Alberta, thank you for your hard work and commitment. Canadians appreciate your leadership on unity. Have a day of rest, maybe with a Forever Canadian Ale 🍺 #ableg #cdnpoli

12044d ago

Rugged Broad6

Well, let’s be sure to shout out THESE brewers! As an IPA aficionado, I’ll be checking out where I can get the Red IPA! www.redhartbrewing.ca

Julie S. Lalonde

@julieslalonde.bsky.social

Ottawa not only had extreme heat, we also got 110mm of rain this afternoon (!!!) and all festivities, including the fireworks, have been cancelled. Climate change is hell.

8345d ago

🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop8

All our events were cancelled too — either due to the umbearable heat or the violent thunder storm and torrential rain. But sure, PM Carney, tell us more about how fighting climate change isn't sustainable?

Madison Winter // Toronto & FMTY

@madisonwinterto.bsky.social

Spent Canada Day watching the fireworks from a boat with six awesome friends. No notes ✨ 👌🏻

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Jade Amber Star2

And that’s exactly how it should be enjoyed 😎🙌🏼

Tiny Beaches

@tinybeaches.bsky.social

Celebrated Canada Day 🇨🇦 with a hike up Pigeon Mountain near Dead Man’s Flats, Alberta. What an amazing day! #Canada #CanadaDay #Rockies

5544d ago

CalgaryK2

Haven’t done Pigeon in forever, but always remembered how lush it was. Another one to revisit…

Paul V1

Surely there are rules against posting stuff like this. People from countries where a hill of 40 meters high is called a 'mountain' see this without any warning for the impact such beauty has. Thank you, it's beautiful 🙂🫶

JavaBen.bsky.social1

Amazing views which calm the psyche.

Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior

@vanellemusic.bsky.social

Meanwhile, in Ottawa, Canada yesterday (it was HOT-- humidex 109.4F, and then holy rainfire thunderstorms whipped through town— nothing will stop us)…

People wave flags and cheer during performances at the Canada Day National noon ceremony at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

5244d ago

Hat Man 🍁🍀2

Nothing stopped me... Storm & power outage, yet out to see my local fireworks with my "Canada is not for sale" shirt. We have reason to celebrate! A great country.

Olivia 𖤓

@lightliv.bsky.social

Big orange moonrise tonight, seen while waiting along Toronto Harbourfront for Canada Day fireworks display

5345d ago

Bare Oaks Family Naturist Park

@bareoaks.ca

Canada Day reminded us of something incredible: more people are discovering naturism. With the holiday falling on a Wednesday, beautiful weather, and so many first-time visitors and families, Bare Oaks was busier than expected. Thank you for your patience as we learn and do better. 🇨🇦❤️

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Flemming Erik Carlson

@flemmingcarlson.bsky.social

Happy Canada Day to all of you Canadians out there! 🇨🇦

4745d ago

Sylvia Kay Rose Author 🍁

@sylvia-rose-books.bsky.social

Here in the region of Ottawa the Wild Hunt has been raging through the sky all day, with monstrous thunderclaps, crazy flashing lightning, cascades of rain so you can't see across the street - and hail. Hang on to yer polyester, not-so-happy campers. As always it'll clear for the fireworks. 😁

2145d ago

Heather McPherson MP

@heathermcpherson.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who came out to our Ice Cream Socials today. It was a joy to spend time with neighbours, friends, and families celebrating the amazing country we share. Days like today remind me that we’re stronger when we come together. Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

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