8,00,000 lose power as freezing rain hits Ontario and Quebec April 05, 2023 at 05:07PM

Quebec's power utility said shortly after 5pm that more than 6,76,000 of its 4.5 million customers had no electricity as much of the province remained under a freezing rain warning. In Montreal, more than 3,16,000 customers had lost power, while 1,71,000 people were hit with outages in the Montérégie region, south of the city.