{"id":649586,"date":"2026-05-05T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649586\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:44:10","slug":"police-investigating-bomb-threats-at-11-toronto-schools-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/649586\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigating bomb threats at 11 Toronto schools &#8211; Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Toronto police say officers are investigating after bomb threats were placed at 11 schools across the city.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson confirmed the figure in an email to Global News Tuesday morning, roughly an hour after the force alerted the public to the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA number of schools throughout Toronto have received bomb threats by phone \u2014 threats are believed to be from the same individual \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/toronto-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto police<\/a> are actively investigating,\u201d the force said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won't miss a trending story.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won&#8217;t miss a trending story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time, there is no evidence to suggest these threats are credible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police went on to add that Bruce Jr. Public School and St Augustine Seminary were evacuated. The decision to evacuate is up to the school, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Glenview Senior Public School was also impacted.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning we were made aware of a possible bomb threat against our school. While we had no reason to believe that this threat was credible, we always take any threat against the school, students, or staff very seriously,\u201d the school\u2019s principal said in a letter to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToronto police were contacted and immediately arrived on site to complete an investigation, and have confirmed there is no credible threat to the school community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s incident is similar to one in late March, where 11 Toronto schools received voicemail threats from the same individual.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Toronto police say officers are investigating after bomb threats were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,2169,3302,80129,79076],"class_list":["post-649586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-crime","tag-toronto-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}