In this edition:
- Nonprofits offered IceDogs tickets, suite
- GO-VAXX bus returning to Lincoln
- Brock named Official University Partner of 2022 Summer Games
- Shares slide as Elon Musk and Twitter line up for legal fight
Local nonprofits offered complimentary IceDogs tickets, use of suite
The City of St. Catharines is offering complimentary use of its suite and tickets for Niagara IceDogs home games to local charities, registered non-profit organizations and amateur youth sports groups.
The suite can be used in one of two ways: organizations can give the suite to youth to attend an IceDogs game or they can sell or auction the suite for fundraising purposes.
Interested organizations must apply online at stcatharines.ca/CommunitySuites by Aug. 13 for the 2022-23 season. City staff will conduct a review of submissions. Successful applicants will be notified in writing once a selection is made and advised of their game date.
Preference will be given to organizations that are based in St. Catharines and those that offer services for local youth. Weekend games are reserved for organizations that will use the suite to take youth to an IceDogs game.
GO-VAXX bus returning to Lincoln in July
A vaccine clinic is returning to Lincoln! The clinics will take place in the parking lot at Charles Daley Park in Jordan Station and the Lincoln Community Centre in Beamsville to administer the Pfizer for 12+ (First, second, booster, and fourth) and Pediatric Pfizer 5-11 (first and second). The fourth dose will be available to all clients that meet the criteria.
Click here for dates, times and locations.
Brock named Official University Partner of Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games
Brock University has been named the Official University Partner of the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games, taking place Aug. 6 to 21 across the Niagara region.
Brock will also be the Presenting Sponsor of three key Games sporting events: rugby sevens, wrestling and beach volleyball.
The partnership builds on Brock’s longstanding support for the 2022 Canada Games, which began with helping to support the original bid and includes contributing a parcel of land for Canada Games Park and the Walker Sports and Abilities Centre, $3.5 million in in-kind support through the use of University facilities (such as dining areas and residences being used as the Athletes Village) during the Games, a $500,000 financial contribution and a wide range of academic programming taking place before and during the event.
Twitter shares slide as Elon Musk and social media company line up for legal fight
Shares of Twitter slid more than 9 per cent in the first day of trading after billionaire Elon Musk said that he was abandoning his $44 billion bid for the company and the social media platform vowed to challenge Musk in court to uphold the agreement.
Twitter is now preparing to sue Musk in Delaware where the company is incorporated. While the outcome is uncertain, both sides are preparing for a long court battle.
Musk alleged Friday that Twitter has failed to provide enough information about the number of fake accounts on its service. However, Twitter said last month that it was making available to Musk a ” fire hose ” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets when he raised the issue again after announcing that he would buy the social media platform.
Twitter has said for years in regulatory filings that it believes about 5 per cent of the accounts on the platform are fake. But on Monday Musk continued to taunt the company, using Twitter, over what he has described as a lack of data. In addition, Musk is also alleging that Twitter broke the acquisition agreement when it fired two top managers and laid off a third of its talent-acquisition team.
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What we know about the network system failure that led to the Rogers outage
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Last Friday, Rogers experienced a major nationwide network outage affecting a range of services, from landline and cellphone coverage to internet and TV.
Not only could people not make calls, including 911 calls in some cases, customers had trouble making debit purchases and accessing Canada’s ArriveCan app, which is required to enter the country.
The company says it has restored services to the “vast majority” of its customers, although reports of continued outages and poor connections persisted over the weekend.
Here is what we know so far about the Rogers outage.
Border measures now extended to fall having ‘devastating’ impact on Niagara’s tourism
Niagara This Week
Mike Lalicich is used to seeing a lot of American visitors eager to dive into soft-serve ice cream cones and shakes at his restaurant, but he’s seeing far fewer nowadays.
The owner of the Dairy Queen restaurant on Ferry Street in Niagara Falls believes border measures that the Canadian government has now extended until the fall — including the much-criticized ArriveCAN app — are keeping many Americans from crossing Niagara River.
“I used to get $400 or $500 a day in U.S. currency,” Lalicich said. “We used to get tons of Americans. Now it’s a couple of hundred (dollars) a week.
“We’re taking a beating,” he said. “We’re talking $40,000 or $50,000 a year” in lost business.
“It just doesn’t make any sense.”
Disclaimer: The GNCC is currently lobbying the Government of Canada to lift all COVID-related border measures immediately.
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