28 years later, see the southern Quebec ice storm as it was reported in 1998

Toronto residents, emerging from homes banked by snow after a record-breaking 56 centimetres fell in one day Sunday, have a new thing to complain about. But if they are upset that someone else has taken a street parking spot that they’ve shovelled out, they would be wise to take the advice of one of the city’s litigation lawyers: “The snow melts, but the neighbours stay.” Clearing a space on the street does not give you the rights to it, says Laya Witty, a lawyer with Singer Kwitner, in an interview. Toronto police Const. Cindy Chung confirms that “the law treats all public streets...