Ontario homeowners and contractors are struggling with what some are calling an unprecedented province-wide shortage of salt, leaving them with few options as an icy encore of freezing rain bears down a large swathe of Southern Ontario. salt mine and ongoing flooding at an American salt mine beneath Lake Erie in Cleveland, Ohio. 'Working their butts off'Salt reserves in Ontario are depleted after a 12-week strike at the Goderich salt mine, seen here last summer. The municipality of Waterloo Region issued a statement Wednesday saying "salt stores are currently very low, due to difficulty in obtaining adequate volume from our supplier." "The salt price went up 50 per cent," said Dennis Leonhardt, the owner of London Snowplow and Landscape, who called the situation unprecedented.

Source: CBC News February 20, 2019 18:11 UTC