Thanks Mother Nature

   In Eastern Canada, more than 400 thousand people were without power after a massive ice storm hit the region on the weekend. More than half, 260 thousand, are in Toronto, 120 thousand in other parts of Ontario, 50 thousand in Quebec and 5 thousand in the Maritimes.
   Some folks have been told they may not get power back until Christmas Day. If there's any upside to the storm, I guess it would have to be the fact the high in Toronto today is -4, even though that's no comfort if you don't have power. We in Saskatchewan and Manitoba can count ourselves lucky that the same storm didn't hit here. Windchills of -50 were recorded in Brandon this morning, and -49 in Regina.

TTFN