Olympic FOMO: Snoop Dogg's many side quests at the Olympics, plus Canada's rugby 7's win silverOlympicsDuration 15:03In this episode of Olympic FOMO, hosts Mark and Jem discuss Snoop Dogg's many side quests during the Olympics in Paris and talk with the Hello and Welcome podcast about the Canadian men's basketball team's victory against Australia.
Several house-sitters told CBC News they feel misled by U.K.-based company Trusted Housesitters, which some said has been irresponsible in downplaying the risks involved when taking on an international house-sitting opportunity. Meanwhile, the company maintains house-sitting is not work, despite U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents telling travellers it's considered employment. While she feels Trusted Housesitters should be held accountable, she also regrets not doing deeper research before becoming a member. She called it irresponsible that Trusted Housesitters was downplaying immigration-related roadblocks, adding she's seen dozens post similar stories online. A Canada Border Services Agency spokesperson noted officers consider all relevant factors before making a decision.
Through the lens: A week since the start of the Jasper wildfireNewsDuration 44:25In the week since Jasper National Park's residents and visitors were ordered to flee as wildfires approached, hours of video footage have emerged chronicling the evacuation, the firefight and the first glimpses of the ravaged town, where about 30 per cent of the structures were destroyed. This compilation brings together videos gathered by our crews or verified by our journalists.
Customers worldwide were unable to connect with Microsoft's 365 services and its cloud platform Azure on Tuesday, a problem the company says it is investigating and which has now been partly resolved. According to Downdetector, an online outage tracker, the number of reports related to Microsoft services surged to more than 200 just before 9 a.m. Problems with its Microsoft 365 administration centre and its coding tool collection Power Platform were resolved. Azure, which is Microsoft's brand for cloud services, is a giant in the industry, said Carmi Levy, a technology analyst based in London, Ont. It's the technology that underpins most of Microsoft's services, including Office 365, Teams, Bing and Xbox, he said.
A senior Olympic official promised the water quality will get better soon, with the first triathlon event set for Tuesday in the Seine. The Seine as an Olympic venueThe Seine was the star of the show at the opening ceremony on Friday. Enlarge image (new window) Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, top, swims in the river Seine along with Paris 2024 organizing committee official Tony Estanguet earlier in July. Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget.
Now, instead of pushing power plants to generate extra power by burning fossil fuels, some utilities are paying customers like Richardson to become part of what's known as a virtual power plant. Brendan Haley, director of policy at the Ottawa-based think-tank Efficiency Canada, says unlike traditional power plants, virtual power plants can do more than just generate power — if they include devices like batteries from electric cars, they can also soak up and store excess energy. And while big power plants tend to be far away from the customers that use them, virtual power plants exchange power locally, which is more efficient. According to Haley, all of this is what makes virtual power plants better than traditional generation-only power plants. Enlarge image (new window) New power plants and transmission lines are expensive and take a long time to build compared to virtual power plants.
"As a result, (BW) and Chin Chopa stole a laptop and an iPad, and Chin Chopa received hundreds of dollars for facilitating the fraud," the lawsuit reads. A lawsuit filed by Amazon against customers of Chin Chopa contains this image allegedly taken from the internet service's Telegram channel. "Chin Chopa uses sophisticated methods to obtain the refund, including socially engineering Amazon customer service. "In some instances, Amazon Customer Service requests a police report be filed and the information sent to Amazon," the lawsuit says. "Each of the eight known Chin Chopa User defendants played a critical role in conspiring to defraud Amazon," the lawsuit says.
Decades of work to safeguard the community of Jasper against the threat of wildfires is being widely hailed for saving the town from total destruction. "We fortified our community and I credit Parks Canada for the work that they did on the landscape to protect our town. "Parks Canada has been taking care of Jasper National Park for almost a century," he said. WATCH | Viewing the aftermath in Jasper: Media allowed to view wildfire aftermath in Jasper, Alta. Troops with the Canadian Armed Forces worked on mopping up spot fires near the northwest side of town, Parks Canada said.
Former residents and descendants of those who grew up in the historic Black community of Africville are incensed after five people were shot on Saturday during the community's annual reunion in Halifax. This weekend marked the 41st annual Africville Family Reunion, which aims to bring together former residents and their descendants. The community was uprooted in the 1960s when the City of Halifax demolished homes in the neighbourhood and residents were displaced. Halifax Regional Police said Sunday that five people in attendance were shot Saturday night when two men exchanged gunfire and the bullets went into the crowd. Enlarge image (new window) Halifax Regional Police say that five people were shot on Saturday night at Africville Park.
Olympic organizers remain confident, though, that there will be a swim in the Seine for the triathlon event at some point this week. Athletes can qualify for the Games as individuals or as part of a country’s mixed relay team. Unfortunately Canada only qualified three athletes this year, so the country won’t be involved in the mixed relay next week. “The course of the triathlon and Para triathlon events in Paris is just everything that the family of triathlon has been dreaming of for years,” says Marisol Casado, President of World Triathlon and IOC member. For last year’s test event, the elite individual races did include the swim, but the swim was cancelled for the Para and mixed relay races.
Winnipeg man alleges landlord who evicted tenants forced him out too – CBCJul 29, 2024CBC News did not get a response from Kelly Vasas through his lawyerA Winnipeg man says the landlord of a College Avenue apartment block where dozens of tenants were evicted with little notice this month also forced him out of his longtime suite in 2021. Christopher Reed alleged he was bullied and harassed so severely that he filed a complaint of discrimination against 211 Furby Ltd. with the Manitoba Human Rights Commission, Reed said in an interview with CBC News. Reed, whose traditional name is Black Bear Walking in the Daylight, is a member of Rolling River First Nation. Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/reed-complaint-landlord-college-evictions-1.7277207
Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. Lamothe-Boudreau says she lost between 200,000 and 250,000 bees to theft. A beekeeper since 2011, this is the first time she's had hives stolen. Photo: CBC / Rachel WattsEach day we could receive dozens and dozens of photos, said Couture.
Rescuing Jasper's petsNewsDuration 2:26Jasper Bylaw has been retrieving pets from evacuees' homes and delivering them to the Hinton & District SPCA. Workers and volunteers are working hard to care for the incoming variety of pets.
