Second Outage in Days Sparks Chaos for Thousands
Canadian Microsoft users were hit with a double whammy as Outlook and Teams went down before noon on Monday, March 3, 2025, leaving thousands unable to email or connect via calls. Hot on the heels of a weekend outage, Microsoft scrambled to roll out a fix, with service trickling back by Monday afternoon.
The tech giant pointed fingers at a “problematic code change” for the initial Friday fiasco on March 1, which crippled Outlook, Teams, and Office 365 for tens of thousands, according to TechRepublic. Monday’s mayhem only added fuel to the fire, with Downdetector.ca clocking peak outage reports—2,627 for Microsoft 365 at 12:07 p.m. and 1,702 for Teams at 12:02 p.m. In an X post, Microsoft admitted to digging into a “potential authentication token issue” behind the Monday mess, vowing to troubleshoot until the bitter end.
Users flooded the web with frustrations over login failures, stalled emails, and silenced Teams calls. Even the University Health Network felt the sting, with email and virtual appointments disrupted before service finally flickered back to life later in the day.
The Microsoft 365 Status account on X later revealed a networking glitch in Canada had thrown services into chaos. By Monday afternoon, a fix was in motion, pulling users back from the digital brink. For a country still shaking off the weekend’s tech turmoil, it’s a shaky step toward normalcy—until the next glitch strikes.