Weather warnings remain in place across the country as major storms continue to dump snow and freezing rain on Quebec, Ontario and B.C., and batter the Atlantic provinces with heavy rain and powerful winds.
Hundreds of thousands of customers have been left without power in the final hours before Christmas, with hydro crews working around the clock to get the lights back on.
A Hydro−Quebec spokesman said about 1,000 workers were repairing power lines to restore electricity to approximately 355,256 customers as of early Saturday morning.
Across the border in Ontario, nearly 74,000 Hydro One customers were without power.
More than 43,000 New Brunswick Power customers were still in the dark early Saturday. along with more than 10,000 in Prince Edward Island….