To be fair, while its definitely an obnoxious situations, the headlines have blown it up a tad more in terms of how many areas are affected. Its primarily chunks of Ontario and Quebec and apparently part of BC.
But yeah, the biggest provider of cable, internet, and phone service has had a 17 hour outage with no ETA yet here. Although my cell phone on their network has been running for about 5 hours now (I also keep a backup flip phone with prepaid cards for another network).
The broader impact seems to be that Interac (a debit and online payment provider that is in itself, an actual monopoly here as far as I know) is contracted with Rogers, and the outage has disabled every debit machine and most ATMs in the country (in our pandemic society where carrying cash hasn't been a common thing in like 2 years). Rendering thousands of businesses dead in the water, even if they have their own separate ISPs.
Also seemingly a ton of government offices run on Rogers as well, effectively paralyzing whole branches. And to some extent 911 services (I think thats a case where they operate on multiple providers, but the load from 30-50% lines being down is causing prolbems)