More than 45,000 customers without power after winter storm hits Ontario: Hydro One
Written by The Canadian Press on December 29, 2025
Tens of thousands of Ontarians remain without power after blasts of heavy snow, freezing rain and strong winds hit a swath of the province.
The Hydro One outage map shows that more than 45,000 customers are in the dark as of late Monday afternoon, down from about 61,000 earlier in the day.
The province’s largest electric utility says the outages were due to the storm that has caused downed lines from ice accumulation on tree branches.
Environment Canada says most of Ontario could expect a mixed bag of precipitation Monday, ranging from freezing rain in Ottawa to heavy snow along Lake Superior and up to 60 centimetres in Timmins.
The weather agency says strong wind gusts of up to 90 kilometres per hour were expected in the Greater Toronto Area and southwestern Ontario.
Hydro One says since the storm began on Sunday, crews have restored power to tens of thousands of customers, but challenging road conditions continue to delay crew access.
Multiple stretches of highways in the Timmins area and other parts of northern Ontario were closed Monday morning as the winter storm battered the region.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 29, 2025.
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