'Nothing left to ship': Eastern Ontario municipalities grapple with road salt shortage | Unpublished
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'Nothing left to ship': Eastern Ontario municipalities grapple with road salt shortage

February 2, 2026

Some eastern Ontario municipalities said they're having to ration road salt or combine it with sand due to a provincewide road salt shortage caused in large part by an exceedingly snowy winter.



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