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Jan 14, 2022 · It's been more than two decades since a series of winter storms buried Toronto under a metre of snow, forcing then-mayor Mel Lastman to call on the military to help the city dig out. The...
Jan 11, 2009 · TORONTO - Ten years after a series of winter storms buried Toronto under more than a metre of snow, former mayor Mel Lastman still takes pride in calling on the military to tackle clogged city...
Dec 25, 2017 · Downtown, restaurants, cafes, and movie theatres did brisk business as freezing workers who had trudged through the snow only to find the city shuttered and silent were forced to find somewhere...
- Storm After Storm
- 'Toronto Just Can't Cope'
- The Most Snow in Quite A While
- 'Everything Is Well Under Control'
"People in southern Ontario are digging out this weekend, the CBC's Simon Dingley reported. "Between 10 and 15 cm of snow hit the Toronto area, nothing compared to last weekend, when the city was walloped by almost 40 centimetres," he continued. And frustration was building along with the piles of snow. "The side roads, the big roads [are] still no...
"Tonight, the army moves in. Another blizzard hits southern Ontario, and Toronto just can't cope," The National told viewers at the start of the broadcaston the night of Jan. 14, 1999. That day, a monster storm had begun to plow its way across Ontario toward Quebec, dropping at least 25 centimetres of snow, and possibly twice that in some areas. Th...
In the previous 11 days, Arsenault summed up, Toronto had already received more than 100 centimetres of snow, and as it was expected to keep falling overnight, this could be "the snowiest January in 200 years." In an interview with The National, Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman told Peter Mansbridge that his biggest worry was that "when the snow melts, wh...
By the next day, on Jan. 15, 1999, the mayor was confident that the worst was over. There would be no further requests for military help. "I'm not prepared to declare an emergency, because everything is well under control," he told reporters. And early in the day, he toured the Downsview base. There he met the troops, and had "a little fun," riding...
Nov 22, 2022 · They say Toronto can get what's known as "lake-effect" snow, but the city is highly unlikely to see the up to two metres that blanketed the Buffalo area over several days last week.
Jan 27, 2016 · Canada. Why has Toronto had so little snow while New York was buried under a blizzard? The contrasting weather in Toronto and the American mid-Atlantic can be chalked up to the 'super' El...
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