Ottawa Mall Blast Shuts Down Businesses | Ottawa News

A massive explosion rocked an Ottawa strip mall on Saturday night, leveling storefronts and forcing businesses to shut down indefinitely — all due to a preventable electrical transformer failure. No injuries were reported, but the blast’s aftermath left one cafe owner scrambling to keep her team afloat while repairs loom for months, and another bakery’s Kanata location is out of commission for good. With damage totaling nearly a million dollars, investigators from the Electrical Safety Authority are still piecing together how this could have been avoided — and how to stop it from happening again.

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