Toronto – Sandy toppled trees and power lines in the Canadian province of Ontario, leaving at least 145,000 people without power on Tuesday, including 55,000 in Toronto, the country’s financial center.
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Strong winds whipped up debris, killing a Toronto woman on Monday.
The Toronto Stock Exchange was set to remain open, making it a North American island of equity trading for the second successive day, with U.S. stock markets closed.
Numerous flights on Air Canada, WestJet Airlines, Porter Airlines and other carriers between the U.S. Northeast and Toronto’s Pearson International Airport and Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport were canceled.
“It’s been a long night,” said Mike Bradley, mayor of the Lake Huron border city of Sarnia, Ontario, where winds are expected to gust to 100 km/h (60 mph).
“Waves were running from six to nine meters, which people around here cannot remember for at least a generation,” he told CBC. “I’m sitting in the dark, we’ve just lost the power.”
Ontario officials had warned people to stay inside as gusts from the huge storm swept through the province, citing risks of flooding and other damage. But the impact was tiny compared to the vast outages and widespread flooding seen in the U.S. East Coast.
Wow. I guess this reporter has already separated Quebec from the rest of Canada. He doesn’t mention the hundreds of thousands of people here who were out of power BEFORE Ontario…
“… Canadian province of Ontario …”
This sounds really awkward. To put this in context, would anyone consider saying:
“The American state of New York”?
Similarly, every time I hear “Toronto, Canada” (instead of “Toronto, Ontario”) it is almost as if someone were scratching a blackboard with their fingernails. Again, would anyone say “Chicago, United States”? … Of course not.
The only rationale I can think of (for both of these) is that Americans know little to nothing outside of their own Daled Amois (so they need to be told this information). Even if this is true, anyone on here can look up any Canadian city/province quite easily on their favourite search engine (e.g. Google).