A continuously-updated picture of emergency department waits across Canada, built from official hospital and health-authority feeds. The live figures below are a snapshot as of 2026-06-24 14:23 UTC; the measured actuals are from CIHI's most recent published year.
Share of reporting ERs at each level right now, combining posted waits and Québec stretcher occupancy on the one quieter-to-busiest scale the map also uses.
“ER wait time” means different things across Canada. Ontario, Alberta and BC post the wait to be seen; Quebec posts stretcher occupancy; New Brunswick posts total length of stay. ER Compass labels every number with its source and what it measures, and keeps the full open archive.
CIHI's measured 90th-percentile time from arrival to a physician in 2024-2025, where a shorter bar means a shorter wait.
| Province / territory | ERs tracked | Reporting now | Live median | CIHI: 9 in 10 seen within | CIHI: admitted ER stay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quebec | 125 | 98 (78%) | 100% | 7.5 h (D) | 51 h |
| New Brunswick | 24 | 18 (75%) | — | — | — |
| Ontario | 174 | 56 (32%) | 2h 11m | 4.5 h (B) | 44 h |
| Alberta | 101 | 23 (23%) | 2h 49m | 5.4 h (C) | 37 h |
| British Columbia | 92 | 7 (8%) | 1h 51m | 5 h (B) | 65 h |
| Manitoba | 69 | 4 (6%) | 9h 22m | 8.5 h (F) | 54 h |
| Saskatchewan | 72 | 1 (1%) | 1h 16m | 4.2 h (B) | 39 h |
| Nova Scotia | 29 | 0 (0%) | — | — | — |
| Newfoundland and Labrador | 27 | 0 (0%) | — | — | — |
| Prince Edward Island | 6 | 0 (0%) | — | 8.9 h (F) | 107 h |
| Northwest Territories | 4 | 0 (0%) | — | — | — |
| Nunavut | 3 | 0 (0%) | — | — | — |
| Yukon | 3 | 0 (0%) | — | 3.2 h (A) | 29 h |
Our live numbers are estimates; CIHI, Canada's national health-data agency, publishes what was actually measured. In 2024-2025, across the provinces it reports, 90% of emergency patients were seen by a physician within 3.2–8.9 hours, and admitted patients spent 29–107 hours in the ER in total before reaching an inpatient bed. Each hospital page shows its own official figure beside what it posts live, the estimate for right now, the official benchmark for the year.
ER Compass archives the wait and occupancy figures Canadian hospitals publish, and overwrite every ~15 minutes, across 7 provinces and territories. “Wait” isn't defined the same way everywhere (Ontario, Alberta and BC post the wait to be seen, Québec posts stretcher occupancy, New Brunswick posts total length of stay), so figures are never blended across those definitions. Our open archive began 2026-06-12; we publish the live snapshot and the official CIHI actuals, and make no year-over-year trend claims until the archive is long enough to support them.
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