Results tagged “power”

1:05 a.m.—Here's hoping this one doesn't last a whole day, but it looks like power's out in a big block of the city's west end. Torontoist staffers first reported problems at about 12:30 a.m. near Dundas West Station and at Bloor and Ossington, and apparently we weren't alone: Twitter users, helpfully once again using the #darkTO tag, have been shouting out their locations, and power is currently being reported as off at Queen and Dufferin, Dundas Street West and Sorauren, Roncesvalles and Queen, Lansdowne and Bloor, Dupont and Bathurst, Dupont and Christie, and Harbord and Ossington.

As far as dissimilar things go, live-blogging a power outage must be something nearly as absurd as dancing about architecture. But when a flood blew into a Dufferin Street transformer station just before 10 p.m. on Thursday night, power blew out across much of Toronto's west end. Our coverage—updated continuously over the twenty-four hours that power was down—continues after the fold.

Torontoist wasn't around during the blackout three years ago today - we were founded a year later - but that doesn't mean we don't have fond memories of the day, and we bet you do, too. God knows we talk about ourselves enough, so we want to know from you, loyal Torontoist readers: what did you do during the "Great North American Blackout?" Let us know in the comments.

With gas prices at hellishly high levels and lobbyists calling for government intervention in Ontario to lower prices, it seems that there's no better time for Who Killed the Electric Car?, an excellent documentary about the slow death of the EV1, General Motors' electric car.