Michelle Dionne — a single mother was hired by an elementary school in Darwell, Alta to sanitize their facilities. However, after they hired her, she said that they told her to download a location tracking app to her personal phone. The employer didn’t provide much information on the app’s purpose. Although, apps of that nature…
Sudbury, a city in Ontario, Canada has purchased four Tesla electric vehicles to add to their fleet of paramedic vehicles. The Tesla Model 3 vehicles are a semi-affordable way to add zero-emissions vehicles to their fleet and reduce overall emissions. Another noteworthy benefit of this decision is the fact that the vehicles are both small…
900 Canadian customers experienced an Internet outage caused by beavers gnawing through a crucial fiber optic cable. The outage occurred in Tumbler Ridge, a municipality in British Columbia. The region, home to 2,000 people endured the outage for 36 hours. The determined rodents dug down alongside the creek, chewed through the 4.5″ conduit and then…
Alberta, Canada is getting its very first large-scale commercial energy storage system.
You may soon be able to ice skate for your daily commute in Edmonton, as the city is considering a ‘Freezeway’ — a paved ice pathway. The pathway, proposed by Matt Gibbs is 11 km (6.8 miles). The Freezeway would run along a loop through downtown Edmonton using an abandoned railway. As Chris DeMorro put it:…
You read that correctly. If you live in North America, BlackBerry will pay you $150 to trade in your old iPhone for the new BlackBerry Passport. According to Fortune, BlackBerry says the offer is worth up to $550. As of Thursday morning, BlackBerrys were the most sold unlocked phones. The trade-in program may have contributed…
Git Bounty is a project that aims to incentivize the repair of bugs in open source software with money. When money talks, everyone listens. Therefore, this likely has great potential to increase productivity in the open source software community. Nearly every open source software project has some form of bug tracking technology, or a bug…
Acura developed a new luxury hybrid which consists of its new three-motor propulsion system assisted by a V6 engine. It is the RLX Sport Hybrid SH-AWD. 119 HP of the power is provided by the electric motors, which utilize a 260-volt battery pack. The remaining 258 HP is provided by the gasoline engine. It has a…
In Southern Ontario, Old Man Winter decided to wake up early, and on the wrong side of the bed. On Saturday, it caused heavy precipitation in the form of snow, which was severe enough to make vehicles ‘disappear’ into snow within seconds of driving into the storm. From what I saw in the CTV video, there…