Power outage hits commerce in Toronto’s downtown core

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The outage is affecting the financial district and major commercial hubs such as the CF Toronto Eaton Centre. Read on

that trading activity on the Toronto Stock Exchange was not affected and that the subway was working normally.

The outage is sure to have an impact on downtown businesses, including that of the Eaton Centre, North America’s busiest shopping mall,Employees at a Lululemon Athletica Inc. store at the Eaton Centre, which is owned by the Toronto-based Cadillac Fairview Corp. Ltd., were unable to serve customers because their cash registers and all systems were off-line for roughly an hour.

“When power goes out, every system we have shuts down,” said Wynee Lee, a full-time staff member. “Every single aspect of this job requires power, requires electricity. It’s very eye-opening.”Article content Lee said that she and her colleagues were immediately evacuated following the outage, per safety protocols.

Power had begun to return by mid-afternoon, Lee said. Her coworkers went back into the store but customers were still not being let into the mall.

 

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Imagine this in the middle of harsh winter with -40°C and buildings' water pipes bursting and water running and freezing. These grid outages....why? Let's see what TorontoHydro has to say about it!!

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