{"id":542876,"date":"2026-03-17T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/542876\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:46:06","slug":"strong-winds-leave-thousands-in-the-dark-in-central-canada-maritimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/542876\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong winds leave thousands in the dark in Central Canada, Maritimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands in the dark<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press &#8211; Mar 17, 2026 \/ 8:03 am | Story: 604069<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"High voltage power lines are seen in Beauharnois, Que., on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Christinne Muschi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/152cbe2b3c99183f634b447fc30cf9b4b66ced556ea6e8f23f77b3caf1257446.jpg\" style=\"height:359px; width:640px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>High voltage power lines are seen in Beauharnois, Que., on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. \u00a0i<\/p>\n<p>Strong winds are putting electrical grids to the test across Central Canada and the Maritimes.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 310,000 customers were knocked off the grid in Quebec this morning, with environment Canada forecasting winds as strong as 90 kilometres an hour in parts of the province.<\/p>\n<p>The largest outages were in the Laurentians, Lanaudi\u00e8re and Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie regions.<\/p>\n<p>Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec says about 1,100 workers have been deployed to reconnect customers in nearly every corner of the province.<\/p>\n<p>In Ontario, strong winds knocked power out to 30,000 in the eastern part of the province and for about 11,000 customers in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands were without electricity in the Maritimes today because of strong winds and heavy rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands in the dark The Canadian Press &#8211; Mar 17, 2026 \/ 8:03 am | Story: 604069 Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-542876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}