Winds kill man, create chaos across Ontario.

Winds gusting up to 120 km/h swept the South and East of Ontario, and then shelling Quebec on Thursday, killing at least one person, injuring a dozen boats capsizing and hitting power of approximately 300,000 households.

Environment Canada has issued a warning of winds just before 11 o'clock in the morning, with winds reaching the region of Niagara, Hamilton, Toronto and the north shore of Lake Ontario in Prince Edward County.

Winds were blamed for a death in Grimsby, Ontario, approximately 30 kilometres east of Hamilton. The Niagara Regional Police stated that a man to the sound of the 1970s was killed when he was hit by a flying garage, which had supported against a hangar door before the wind came out. The man lives on the property.

At least a dozen other people have been injured in Ontario and Quebec.

The Burlington Skyway Bridge and the bridge of the Garden-City of St. Catharines were closed for a few hours winds. Both were reopened later in the day.

In Hamilton Harbour, approximately five boatfuls of student rowers were rescued after at least seven vessels capsized.

Wind Warning ended at about 1 p.m.

Hydro crews worked to restore the power of 150 000 homes across the province, said Nancy Shaddick of Hydro One.

"Situation, power can be restored quickly or rerouted to bring power to a lot of the community," she said.

Power lost about 20,000 in Ottawa, who also felt wind and Hydro Ottawa said it would be switching to a backup system to restore electricity as soon as possible.

Horizon utilities said some 30 000 of its customers without power in St. Catharines, with approximately 6 500 in Hamilton.

"Winds toppled poles and overthrown son and trees falling on the son, said Tony Iavarone, spokesman for the company." It is now extinct in Hamilton, but in St. Catharines, we see even more natural. ?

Students at St. Lockview public school Catharines were forced to leave the building after wind gusts uprooted a part of the roof of the school. No injuries have been reported.

Trucks overturned and debris caused delays on the Queen Elizabeth Way through the Niagara region.

Garbage was put on hold in the region and landfills are closed.

Police were warning drivers to use caution and invites everyone to be careful after reports of fallen power lines and trees.

High winds overturned this sign parking in downtown Toronto on Thursday. (Jamie Strashin/CBC News)

In Toronto, waves up to three metres high were spotted on the shores of the Lake and the Boulevard Club, located on the Lake directly south of the Roncesvalles Avenue, was forced to close due to flooding caused by the high waves.

The docks of the club also suffered damage from high waves.

Toronto fire crews were busy answering calls on power lines have fallen and Twitter users called Toronto "city of winds" in the messages displayed on Thursday morning.

Environment Canada also issued a warning for a large part of Quebec on Thursday, warning of wind gusts up to 90 km/h.

Winds eliminated the power of at least 155 000 customers in the province in the afternoon.

Outages were reported in the Outaouais, on the South Shore, Laval Laurentides, the Eastern Townships and Central Quebec.

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Slightly higher radiation in Ontario

In photo, Minister of energy of the Ontario Brad Duguid a ceremony of inauguration of the completion of the solar project Sarnia in Sarnia, Ontario, last October. Dave Chidley/Canadian Press

Higher than normal levels of radiation were detected in Ontario after the nuclear crisis at the Japan, but officials said Tuesday that the increase is so low that it poses a risk to health.

Energy Minister Brad Duguid said levels increased slightly, but he did not detail specific on the question of whether the increases were found in water, air or food.

"There is some some minor increase in radiation detection, but is not anywhere near something which would have an impact on human health," Duguid said to journalists. "This is not something that Ontario residents need to be too concerned about."

The news comes a day after the Japan has increased the rating of the severity of the crisis in the ravaged Central Fukushima Daiichi nuclear tsunami at the same level as the Chernobyl disaster.

Office of the Minister of energy distributed on some radiation that may "have been organized by the wind" of the Japan in this country and normal background of the Canadian Commission for the nuclear safety and Health Canada information.

"Natural radiation varies from one place to another, but Health Canada data do not show an increase over normal daily fluctuations," said the safety Committee.

"However, very careful of isotopes in the radiation levels have been attributed to the output to the Japan."

The actual increase of radiation "is so low that it is extremely difficult to measure against the normal background radiation, said the commission." "" The conclusions of these detectors more confirm that radiation doses do not present a risk to health for Canadians. ?

Medical officer of Health Dr. Arlene King, Ontario of health Chief, said all the products imported and domestic, tested by the Federal Government are below levels of Health Canada action to harmful radiation.

"Based on current information, I am of the opinion that there is no risk to the health of Ontarians and Ontario of the damaged nuclear installation at the Japan", King said in a statement.

Ontario's Environment Minister John Wilkinson said that there is no problem of radiation with drinking water in the province.

"Ontario's water is safe, but given the situation in the Japan we use increased vigilance," said.

Agriculture Minister Carol Mitchell said it belonged to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to determine if there were any radiation in food or milk sold in Ontario.

"All milk that is sold in Ontario is sterilized, pasteurized," said Mitchell.

The Ontario new Democratic Party, said that they could not believe that the provincial Government therefore knows little about the radiation levels one month full after the beginning of the nuclear crisis in the Japan.

"This is quite disconcerting," said NDP Leader Andrea Horwath. "The people of this province just want to know that their water is safe, that their food is safe, their milk and it is quite amazing that we could get the answers from the Government today.".

The NDP noted that high levels of radiation already have been reported in several cities in the U.S. is, including in Vermont, Arkansas, California and Arizona milk and water in New Jersey, PennsylvaniaIdaho and the Tennessee.

"It is clear ongoing monitoring in other jurisdictions," said Horwath. "If they are testing and let people know what is happening, Ontario residents should expect nothing less."

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