“High demand,” said Lynn St-Laurent, a spokesperson for Hydro-Québec, about what caused equipment failure at a substation that led to power outages in 100,000 homes in Montreal as cold temperatures hit the area. Gareth Madoc-Jones reports.

“It’s huge this year,” says Lynn O’Donnell of the Citizen Action Committee of Verdun, as Quebec’s housing tribunal recommended a rent increase of nearly six per cent – a 30-year-high. Alyssia Rubertucci reports.

“Haven’t seen these temperatures in a while,” said Gina Ressler, a meteorologist for Environment and Climate Change Canada, about the frigid winter weather caused by a polar vortex that continues to hit Montreal and the rest of Quebec.

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