“Look, you don’t know how much snow there was,” Lastman told National Post in 2019 on the 20th anniversary of the event. “I took a drive with my driver through the residential streets in downtown Toronto. They were saying on the radio there was going to be another 50 cm of snow or something.”Soldiers from Royal Regiment of Canada shovel snow on Jan. 15, 1999, in downtown Toronto. “I saw on CTV just the extent of the snow that Toronto had received in five or six days,” Mike Currie, P.E.I. Canadian Army officer John Dunn patrols downtown Toronto on Jan. 15, 1999, in an armoured personnel carrier following heavy snow and frigid temperatures in eastern and central Canada.

Source: National Post January 15, 2026 17:51 UTC