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Quebec provincial police are searching for two firefighters who were carried away by floodwaters near Baie-Saint-Paul on Monday.

Burial of power lines among measures “not high enough on the agenda” to lower outage risks and make the system more resilient.

At around noon, nearly half a million Hydro-Québec customers were without power, according to the utility's outage tracker.

Some customers will go without power into the weekend

Two power outages in the Montreal area may have affected voting stations in two different locations.

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Wind chills could reach -40 C by Friday night across southern Quebec.

With temperatures dipping to almost –38 C in some parts of the province, Quebecers were using more hydro-electricity than ever before. Hydro-Québec, the provincial utility, also had to export power to customers in Ontario and the U.S.

The province is looking to phase out oil and gas heating and legislation that bans oil-powered furnaces in new construction comes into effect Dec. 31. By the end of 2023, fossil fuels will no longer be allowed to be used to heat new buildings or be repaired or replaced.

After residents in Montreal's Saint-Henri neighbourhood complained about new Hydro-Québec poles along the Lachine Canal and Catalognous Park being "ugly," they will be removed.