More than 275,000 Hydro-Quebec customers are without power in Montreal, but the company says it shouldn’t last much longer.
Around 9:30 a.m., the utility company took to Twitter to say that the issue has been fixed and power will be restored “gradually over the next hour.”
Hydro-Quebec says the outage covered large areas of the north-central and eastern parts of the city.
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Montreal’s transit authority says the outage is also causing delays with the city’s Metro service.
— with files from The Canadian Press.
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