An affected RBC parking lot. Power is expected to return around 5:30 p.m.
Power has returned to part of downtown Toronto on Wednesday after an outage that lasted around three hours.Posted: Feb 05, 2025 2:43 PM EST | Last Updated: 16 minutes ago
The outage began around 1:30 p.m., south of Queen Street West from Spadina Avenue to Yonge Street, north of the Gardiner Expressway. The outage impacted the supply of electricity from Hydro One to Toronto Hydro, Hydro One told CBC Toronto.OCAD University's campus building at 230 Richmond St. W. was closed due to the outage but has since reopened, the university said in a post on X. Power was out at CBC Toronto's Front Street building but returned around 3:50 p.m.Mirvish Productions said the Princess of Wales Theatre was affected, as power went out 20 minutes into the matinee performance of The Lion King.
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