CONSERVE ENERGY ON DAY 2 OF TORONTO’S HEAT WAVE, SAYS TORONTO HYDRO
It is day 2 of what is expected to turn into a heat wave in Toronto; when there are 3 consecutive days of 32 celcius-plus temperatures. Yesterday, the city recorded a high temperature of 32.7...
View ArticleOPENING PRESENTS IN THE DARK?
Imagine the Blue Jays selling out five games in a row. That’s how many Toronto Hydro customers are still without power because of the freezing rain — 250-thousand. Officials say try as they might, it...
View Article227,000 TORONTO HYDRO CUSTOMERS STILL WITHOUT POWER, MAYOR FORD SAYS NO NEED...
There is some good news as we continue to deal with the aftermath of the big ice storm. Mayor Rob Ford provided an update at 8am today from Toronto City Hall. “Our hydro crews have been working...
View ArticleMORE RESIDENTS HAVE POWER BACK, BUT MANY MAY BE OUT OF LUCK FOR CHRISTMAS
Toronto Hydro officials say about 85-thousand customers remain without power in the city as of 3:00 p.m. Friday. That’s substantially down from the more than 300-thousand at the peak of the outages,...
View ArticleFIFTY-FOUR THOUSAND STILL WITHOUT POWER IN TORONTO
Hydro Crews continue to work around the clock to restore power to thousands of people who began Boxing Day either at home in the cold and the dark, or in a warming shelter, a hotel room, or with...
View ArticleMORE AND MORE BACK ON THE GRID, WHILE LOBLAW STEPS UP TO HELP
The number of homes and business without electricity in Toronto is now down to about 6,000 as of 12:00 noon Sunday. That’s less than half of what it was last night. Toronto Hydro CEO Anthony Haines...
View ArticleTORONTO HYDRO STORM COSTS SOAR TO MORE THAN 12-MILLION DOLLARS
It’s not a guarantee but the CEO of Toronto Hydro says customers won’t be on the hook for the 12.9 million dollars that the ice storm cost the utility if he can prevent that. Anthony Haines says the...
View ArticleTORONTO HYDRO WORKERS VOTE TO STRIKE
Unionized Toronto Hydro workers have voted 99 per cent in favour of strike action to back their demands in a new contract. At issue is not wages, but a claw back in benefits. The union can’t legally...
View ArticleROB FORD’S DRUG TROUBLES ENTER THE SECOND TORONTO MAYORAL DEBATE
Rob Ford was booed last night at Ryerson University where the second Toronto mayoral debate of this campaign was held. Moderator Ralph Lean, who teaches a class at Ryerson and is a prominent...
View ArticleREPORT PRAISES TORONTO HYDRO’S ICE STORM RESPONSE
Toronto Hydro receives high marks for its response to the major outages during last December’s ice storm. The praise is contained in a just released report by an independent review panel. ”Normally...
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THOUSANDS STILL WITHOUT POWER IN TORONTO AND ACROSS PROVINCE AFTER INTENSE...
That was quite a wind storm we had across southern Ontario last night. Construction material was being whipped off the tops of some buildings, trees were uprooted and power lines brought down,...
View ArticleTENS OF THOUSANDS OF HOMES WITHOUT POWER DURING HEIGHT OF GTA WINTER WEATHER...
It wasn’t a full blown storm, but freezing rain in the GTA last night led to significant power outages. Some 87,000 Toronto Hydro customers were without power at the height out of the outage. This...
View ArticleIT WAS LIGHTS OUT FOR “EARTH HOUR”
You weren’t alone in the dark if you turned the lights off for Earth Hour last night. The lights also went out for Justin Trudeau as the Prime Minister and his family flipped the switch at Rideau Hall...
View ArticleWEDNESDAY’S RECORD BREAKING TEMPERATURE PUSHED POWER USAGE TO HIGHEST IN 2016
Electricity has been restored to nearly all of the Toronto Hydro customers who lost power because of last night’s thunderstorms. For residents of Toronto’s City Place neighbourhood, it was the fourth...
View ArticleMAYOR TORY FLOATS PARTIAL SALE OF HYDRO TO FUND CITY BUILDING
Toronto’s mayor says he’s ready to be bold, but cautious in his approach, on a new model for city building. John Tory spoke to the Toronto Region Board of Trade where he floated the idea of new taxes...
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RBC TOWER AT 20 KING WEST TO BE CLOSED FOR 6 MONTHS AFTER LAST WEEK’S HYDRO...
The Royal Bank of Canada office building at 20 King Street West, that was evacuated last week after an underground hydro vault fire and series of explosions, will stay closed for at least six months...
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FLASH RAIN STORM INUNDATES TORONTO TUESDAY NIGHT, FLOODING IN MANY AREAS
What a night it was in Toronto! Heavy rain between 9 and 11pm Tuesday night caused severe flooding along with power outages in several areas. Heaviest showers were over the west end of Toronto and near...
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