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By CCTV correspondent¹ Kristiaan Yeo

Extreme cold weather is freezing Canada. In Toronto, the country's largest city, temperatures have dropped to as low as minus 40 with wind-chill.

Canada experiences extreme cold.

Across the country, Canadians woke up to severe weather warnings, and "flash freeze" alerts². In Manitoba, temperatures have been in the negative 30-40 through all the day. To the east, in Newfoundland, around 30-thousand homes were without power.

Now Toronto, like most of Canada, that's used to brutal³ winters. Beneath the streets of the downtown core, is a vast underground city of tunnels, connecting the major buildings directly to the subway system. It's like a giant shopping mall  and spares thousands of city workers from having to venture outside.

But above ground, things have been quite a challenge.

"We're Canadians, so we're pretty tough. We can handle this stuff," a resident says.

"You have to be very careful on the sidewalks and I think for older people or people who have disabilities, it can be a real problem. You have to drive slower and try to be very careful getting your car out of the parking spot or walking on the streets when you're out shopping," a resident says.

"We're not used to it and it takes a while until we get used to it. Maybe by the middle of February, everybody will have had their fill and look forward to an early spring," a resident says.

Now travel has already been a problem. Roads, railways and airports have already seen disruption⁴, and advice people to delay their travel plans if at all possible. That advice continuing into Tuesday as these bitter cold temperatures linger⁵ on until the middle of the week.