Canada’s airports, hospitals begin returning to normal after global IT outage
Canada’s airports, hospitals and police services are still returning to normal operations a day after a defective update to computers using Microsoft Windows caused a global technology outage.
On Saturday, Microsoft estimated the update deployed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike affected 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide, and in Canada much of that impact fell on air travel.
Travellers with Porter Airlines saw many of their flights cancelled on Friday and the vast majority of arrivals and departures between Canada and the U.S. at airports in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal were postponed or called off.
But Saturday, Montreal’s Trudeau airport announced normal operations have resumed and the majority of flight departures and arrivals at airports in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary are now landing and taking to the skies in spite of delays.