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Q: Toronto power returns after blackout 
  
 Power was mostly restored Monday evening in the parts of Toronto affected by a blackout triggered by a fire at a transformer station in the city's west end that left 240,000 Toronto Hydro customers in the dark. 
  
 Electricity was restored for all but 1,300 households by 8 p.m. ET, more than three hours after the start of the blackout, Toronto Hydro spokeswoman Denise Attallah told CBC News. 
  
 The power outage started around 4:45 p.m. ET on a day when Toronto was under an extreme heat alert, with temperatures rising to 34 C, and caused traffic chaos at the height of the city's afternoon rush hour. 
  
 Daffyd Roderick, a spokesman for Hydro One, which supplies power to distributor Toronto Hydro, said the cause of the fire that sparked the failure was still under investigation. 
  
 The fire happened at the Manby Transformer Station on Kipling Avenue in the Etobicoke section of Toronto. Hydro One said equipment at the station caught fire and that the cause of the blaze is under investigation. No injuries have been reported at the station, the power company said. 
  
 Hydro One lost about 900 megawatts of electricity inside the affected area during the blackout and had to restore all of the big circuits that connect its transformer stations, Roderick said. 
  
 Six Toronto Hydro substations fed by Hydro One were out of service as a result of the outage, Toronto Hydro said. 
  
 Power was restored through a process called backfilling, which is when hydro agencies draw on other sources of power and re-route the power around the out-of-commission transfer station to get it to customers, the CBC's Muhammad Lila reported. 
  
 "Hydro One has told us that pockets of power are going to be coming and going," he said. 
  
 Both Hydro One and Toronto Hydro urged customers to conserve energy and unplug major appliances such as air conditioners to avoid overloading the system. 
  
 The blackout brought back memories of the massive one in August 2003 when 50 million people from New York to North Bay, Ont., were left in the dark after several power grids went down. It was the largest blackout in North American history. 
  
 Commuter chaos 
  
 A map posted on the Toronto Hydro website soon after the outage showed large swaths of the city had been affected. The area where outages occurred stretched from Renforth Drive in the west to Yonge Street in the east, and from the Gardiner Expressway in the south to Highway 401 in the north. 
  
 The blackout disrupted many commuters, with subway service down from Jane to Kipling stations on the Bloor-Danforth line and minor delays reported along the Yonge-University-Spadina line at Union Station. 
  
 By 7:30 p.m. ET, subway service, which had been replaced by shuttle buses, was restored, Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) chair Adam Giambrone said. 
  
 Streetcars and buses although still running were delayed during the blackout because of the many downed traffic lights. 
  
 At the height of the outage, stranded commuters filled the streets as police — and sometimes pedestrians — directed traffic. 
  
 A pedestrian speaks to a Toronto police officer while directing traffic during a power outage in Toronto on Monday. (Peter Jones/Reuters) A pedestrian speaks to a Toronto police officer while directing traffic during a power outage in Toronto on Monday. (Peter Jones/Reuters) 
  
 Pedestrian Aseel El-Baba took it upon herself to direct traffic at King and Wellington streets in downtown Toronto for about an hour before police arrived. 
  
 "I saw two near car accidents, and I thought, 'OK, I have to do something'," she told CBC News. "The first five minutes were scary, but I got used to it." 
  
 Police told her she was a safety risk and urged her to leave the intersection, she said. 
  
 The power went out briefly at Pearson International Airport, but the airport authority's website showed few flight delays. 
  
 Capt. Mike Strapko of Toronto Fire Services said firefighters had to rescue some people who got trapped in elevators when the power failed. 
  
 Giant fireball reported 
  
 Stephen Michalowicz of the local news website Torontoist reported seeing a "giant fireball" near the Kipling Avenue facility. 
  
 Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh attended a state dinner at the downtown Royal York Hotel, which was among the buildings that lost power. The 7:30 p.m. dinner, hosted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, proceeded despite the outage. 
  
 Prince Philip was presenting the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, a program that encourages youth to participate in community service, among other areas, when the lights went out. But the emergency power kicked in at the hotel and he handed out the awards in the dimly lit room, joking with parents in the audience. ||||| Power went out in Toronto Monday afternoon, leaving part of the city – and the royal entourage – dark in the middle of a blistering heat wave. 
  
 Power was restored to all parts of the city by 8:30 p.m., Hydro One said. About 250,000 customers on the city's west side and downtown were affected – some for nearly four hours. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 Hydro One has confirmed a fire at one of their breakers at the Manby transformer station near Kipling Avenue. The fire broke out at 4:40 p.m., spokeswoman Daniele Gauvin said. Hydro One crews are investigating the cause, and don't yet know if the power was blown due to overuse. 
  
 The 230-kilovolt line provides power to thousands of Toronto Hydro customers, she said. There were no injuries. 
  
 Initial reports suggest the outage spanned from the eastern suburb of Ajax to Yorkdale in the northwest. 
  
 At the Fairmont Royal York hotel, the lights went out just as Prince Philip began awarding the Duke of Edinburgh awards in the Canadian room. 
  
 Displaying a trademark British stiff upper lip, he sat in the darkmess for a few minutes until the hotel's backup generator lit up the room's four chandeliers. With the power back on, he continued with his remarks, ignoring the blackout entirely. 
  
 "Congratulate your parents on having such brilliant children," he told the award winners, before being escorted out of the room and into a service elevator that remained operational. 
  
 Mahmood Mirza, a bio-medical engineer, stepped in to direct traffic when he witnessed the chaos after Monday's power outage. 
  
 In the darkened hallways, he passed an assembled crowd of black-tie clad men and women who had began arriving for the evening's dinner, many of whom attempted to snap his picture in the dark. 
  
 Outside, a crowd gathered near the royal motorcade on York Street, hoping for a glimpse of the Queen. 
  
 "She walked by me this morning, said Candi Kubiak, who is in town for the shriners convention. "I'm glad we're staying here. You know they're going to get lights on for her." 
  
 Melanie Coates, a spokesperson for the hotel, said everything was going ahead as planned for the royal dinner for 380 guests. She said the Queen was comfortable. Other guests said the air conditioning was still working. 
  
 Lights out at the intersection of Front Street and University Avenue in Toronto. 
  
 Outside, in the financial district, a symphony of honking horns filled the streets as streams of office workers left their buildings and filled the roads and sidewalks, looking for a way to get home. 
  
 One sweating Bay Streeter announced that he had walked down 53 flights of stairs. When the power went out, he was in a meeting with other CIBC employees. Did they all get up to leave? "No, we continued on for about an hour," he said laughing, with his jacket in his hand. 
  
 Ali Murtaza, 37, was near the top of the new Telus building on York when the power cut out. "I had to walk down 26 flights," he said. "The intercom jumped on and said it was an exploded transformer. We thought it was in our building, so we got the hell out." 
  
 A woman in a pink shirt outside the King subway entrance waved her arms above her head and warned would-be commuters away before she hiked her bag on her shoulder and pushed through the crowd to the streetcar: "The subway's not working!" ||||| Now, in the twilight of a reign that has spanned 58 years, one of the longest of any British monarch, the 84-year-old queen is to visit New York on Tuesday for a third and perhaps final time, accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh. The royals will arrive in a private plane from Canada, where they have been traveling for nine days, and fly home to Britain in the evening. 
  
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 Although the queen arrives in the summer’s worst heat wave, she is not the wilting kind. The dark hair has gone white and the shoulders are a bit rounded with age now, but her step is still lively and the face engaged on a reception line or at a garden party as she shakes another hundred hands and speaks with simple dignity. She is addressed initially as “Your Majesty” and thereafter as “Ma’am.” 
  
 What can a visitor do with less than a half-day in New York? Quite a lot, it seems, if she is moving through Manhattan’s traffic morass in a motorcade escorted by police officers, watched over by cordons of federal, state and Scotland Yard agents and ushered through formalities by a protocol phalanx from City Hall and the State Department. 
  
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 In contrast to her first two visits to the city — what might be called her awe-struck first impressions and her more mature celebratory return — this is to be a short, relatively solemn occasion: a valedictory at the United Nations, a reflective half-hour at ground zero and a stroll through a garden created in the canyons of Lower Manhattan as a memorial to the 67 Britons killed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. 
  
 In the first of the three stops on her itinerary, the queen will speak at midafternoon to the delegates of 192 nations of the United Nations General Assembly and a galaxy of dignitaries and political leaders. There were only 82 member states in 1957, when she exhorted delegates to persevere in the quest for peace and human rights. 
  
 This time, she will offer personal reflections, looking back across the decades and to the future. “She will be taking a global perspective,” said Harriet Cross, speaking for the United Kingdom’s Mission to the United Nations. “She will touch on progress made since she was last here, and challenges that remain.” 
  
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 Generalizations, yes. But as a constitutional monarch with largely ceremonial powers, Elizabeth does not voice political views publicly. She opens Parliament, confers with her prime ministers and stands watch on the passing cavalcade. In her lifetime, the queen, who was born April 21, 1926, has seen the British Empire transformed from a pre-eminent world power into a commonwealth of 54 independent states, of which she is the figurehead. She is also the queen of 16 realms, including the United Kingdom, and a nominal leader of two billion subjects, nearly a third of the world’s population. 
  
 In the late afternoon, she will go to ground zero. She will make no speech, but will be met by an honor guard and by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Govs. David A. Paterson of New York and Christopher J. Christie of New Jersey. She will briefly tour the 16-acre site, where thousands died and where today new skyscrapers are rising, with reflecting pools in the footprints of the fallen twin towers. 
  
 Finally, in the early evening, the queen will cross Lower Manhattan to the British Garden in Hanover Square, a serene greensward memorial to the British subjects who died at the trade center on Sept. 11, 2001. Relatives of some 50 victims will meet the queen, who will cut a ribbon to formally open the garden. 
  
 An elongated triangle in the rough shape of the British Isles, it is a landscaped version of a traditional British garden, planted with hydrangea, rhododendron, azalea, foxglove, holly and yew, and set off by a winding path of Morayshire stone and benches fashioned in Northern Ireland. Situated on city land, the garden broke ground in 2005 and has been open for several years. 
  
 The queen will make no public remarks, but will stroll the path, escorted by the British ambassador to the United States, Sir Nigel Elton Sheinwald; the consul general in New York, Sir Alan Collins; the mayor and the governors; and leaders of the British Memorial Garden Trust, which developed the project with the St. George’s Society of New York as a gift to the city. 
  
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 Elizabeth, who became queen at 25 after her father, King George VI, died in 1952, has four children and eight grandchildren. Her duties have taken her around the world many times, making her one of history’s most widely traveled heads of state. While she has visited America often, her New York visits are rare touchstones in a life of pageantry and restraint. |||||
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A power outage struck late this afternoon in Toronto, where Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are visiting at the end of a 9-day swing through Canada. The prince was at a downtown hotel when the lights went out and gamely presented the Duke of Edinburgh Awards for community service to local youths in a dimly lit room, reports the Globe and Mail. Earlier, the queen visited the headquarters of Research in Motion, which makes the BlackBerry—she's a fan—and received a personalized smartphone. The visit was the first time reporters have been allowed on the floor at the RIM plant, AFP reports. The queen is scheduled to visit New York tomorrow. She will speak at the UN and visit the site of the World Trade Center, reports the New York Times.