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. Power was restored to all parts of the city by 8:30 p.m., Hydro One said. 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. Hydro One has confirmed a fire at one of their breakers at the Manby transformer station near Kipling Avenue. No injuries have been reported at the station, the power company said. Six Toronto Hydro substations fed by Hydro One were out of service as a result of the outage, Toronto Hydro said. "Hydro One has told us that pockets of power are going to be coming and going," he said. Mahmood Mirza, a bio-medical engineer, stepped in to direct traffic when he witnessed the chaos after Monday's power outage. We thought it was in our building, so we got the hell out." Police told her she was a safety risk and urged her to leave the intersection, she said. 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.  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.
– 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.