Rogers network outage across Canada hits banks, businesses and consumers
Given that private business won’t magically reduce their profits to have (more) backups and hire more competent it staff, I guess you all want the internet to return to being a regulated utility?  The only really serious aspects were letting debit transactions be run by a single provider along with some aspects of border control.  These should have mandated fall over to other vendors to keep running.  The banks and credit cards did fine as long as the store was on line.