WINNIPEG — The first major blast of winter is hitting parts of Manitoba hard. Thousands of Manitoba Hydro customers found themselves without power, including one outage in the province’s southeast that impacted 5,000 people for a time. The storm also created poor driving conditions in affected regions. Shortly after 1 p.m., a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway from Falcon Lake to the Ontario boundary was closed. On other roads, snow-pack and blowing snow and slippery conditions were reported.

Source: National Post October 27, 2017 01:07 UTC