Living without power after Canada’s storm
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Crawley tends to her cat in her home that has had no heat or power for over 5 days following an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 2/16
Crawley tends to her cat behind a pot of boiling hot water, used to raise the humidity in her home that has no heat or power following an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 3/16
Helen Wilson lays under a pile of blankets, in a house which has had no power or heating for over 5 days, after an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 4/16
Sign advertises emergency candles for sale after 250,000 residents were still left without electricity from a weekend ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 5/16
Cameron is forced to leave his home after the fire department condemned the house when a pipe burst inside following an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 6/16
Warming centres have been set up at various community centres around the city, in the wake of the ice storm that struck Toronto over the weekend.
David Donnelly/CBC - 7/16
Christmas shoppers walk past a bakery advertising hot meat pies for residents whose electricity remains knocked out by an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 8/16
Cameron looks at a ceiling in his home where a pipe burst following an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 9/16
Cory Bean works atop a utility pole to repair a power line, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013, in East Lansing, Mich. Bean is part of a crew from utility service company T&D Solutions out of Kentucky brought in to assist Consumers Energy with restoring power in Michigan after an ice storm. Bean has been working in Michigan since Sunday. (AP Photo/Al Goldis)
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A man walks his dog past a spa advertising free hot showers for residents whose electricity remains knocked out by an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 11/16
Helen Wilson lies under a pile of blankets, in a house which has had no power or heating for over five days, after an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 12/16
Brampton homeowner Andrew Hill had his electrical standpipe damaged in last weekend's ice storm. For damage of this kind it's the homeowner, not the electrical utility, that is responsible for repairs.
Charlsie Agro/CBC - 13/16
It's extreme damage like this in Baxters Harbour, N.S., that left people without power in Nova Scotia.
Craig Paisley/CBC - 14/16
Karen Gibbs walks through a labyrinth of icy broken trees and downed power lines to her home on Maplehurst Drive in Belgrade, Maine on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. Southeast Maine and parts of the state's interior that have been without electricity since Sunday anticipated 3 to 7 inches of snow by the time the latest system pushed off the coast Thursday night. Utilities worried that the additional weight on branches and transmission lines could cause setbacks in the around-the-clock efforts to restore power. (AP Photo/The Central Maine Morning Sentinel, Michael G. Seamans)
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Toronto Hydro employees work to restore power in the Scarborough suburb following an ice storm in Toronto
REUTERS - 16/16
A Toronto Hydro worker looks at a map in the Scarborough suburb following an ice storm as others work to restore power in Toronto
REUTERS
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About 40,000 customers in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick remain in the dark one week after a major ice storm blanketed Central and Atlantic Canada, and warming temperatures have caused new power outages in Toronto on Saturday, Dec. 28. (CBC)