Nearly 200K Montreal hydro clients without power after transmission line problem

MONTREAL — Nearly 200,000 electricity clients have lost power in Montreal after an issue with a Hydro-Québec transmission line.
The provincially owned electric utility says a protection mechanism was tripped on one of its high-voltage transmission lines just north of Montreal, triggering the widespread outage.
Spokesperson Caroline Des Rosiers says authorities are investigating what happened and aren’t ruling out high temperatures in southern Quebec as the cause.
She says the